Baby name
RISING
🇺🇸 🇳🇱 Selah
/SEA · lah/
Meaning
“Possibly a pause in the Psalms”
Selah was never the name of a person in the Bible. It is a Hebrew word that appears often in the Hebrew Bible, most frequently in the Psalms, usually placed at the end of a verse. Its exact meaning and function are uncertain: it is possibly a musical pause, or a cue to pause and reflect. As a given name, Selah is a modern use of this biblical word rather than a name any biblical figure carried.
Nicknames
seli
Vibe
serene
How it ages.
A modern word-name pulled straight from scripture rather than a traditional given name, with real current use in both the United States and the Netherlands.
The cultural moment.
Last ranked #216 among girls in the United States and #477 in the Netherlands, both in 2025.