Given name & surname

Selest

Selest is used as a given name and a surname.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Selest isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Selest through the years

Babies since 1880
29
0 boys · 29 girls
Most popular year
1998
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0123420002025Highest share 19980.0
Selest in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1998–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1998.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Selest’s family of names

In English usage, Selest as a surname has a related form in SHELEST.

Walk Selest’s family in the name graph

SelestShelest

The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

If you love Selest, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Sumra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

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Seniya

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>99% girls

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Sadaya

11Very rare

>99% girls

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Senaiya

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

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Cyerah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

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Ciarra

“a dark beauty”

0Not recently recordedCooling

>99% girls

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Seairah

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

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Emane

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Selest’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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