Baby name
RISING
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 Selina
/seh · LEE · nah/
Meaning
“Moon”
Greek origin from Selene, the goddess of the moon; the -ina form softens the divine original into a more intimate given name, used across German, English, and Scandinavian traditions.
Nicknames
seli
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Feels elegant and underused; moon-goddess names are aging extremely well in current markets.
The cultural moment.
Consistently used in Germany and the UK from the 1970s onward; quietly rising again in the 2010s.