Selina
From the Greek word for "moon". Barely known in Poland: only about 105 women and girls carry it, but more got it last year than in years past, and the name is slowly climbing.
Selina Pronunciation
Selina is pronounced se-LEE-nah (/sɛˈlina/).
What Selina means
Where Selina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Selina reaches back to the Greek Selene, Σελήνη, the goddess who was the moon. That is the origin the name still holds: moon, and in Polish księżyc. The spelling Selina took root in English, which is why it reads today as an English name built on Greek ground.
One documented bearer is Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, who lived from 1707 to 1791. She founded a Methodist connexion in England that still carries her title. Her name kept the old Greek root under a plain English surface, and the lunar sense stayed attached to it rather than fading.
On a Polish class register the name sits among Polish spellings and stands a little apart. It has no diminutive here, no home-grown variant to soften it. So it stays whole. Selina. What it has always named is the moon, księżyc.
How many people are named Selina
1 in 214703 women in Poland is named Selina. 105 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3340 among female names.
Selina's popularity over time
7 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #835 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2022.
Where Selina is most popular
Selina is most popular in Lesser Poland, 852% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+852%
Selina as a middle name
Selina is a first name for 105 women in Poland and a middle name for another 25, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1434th, between Rosana (25) and Siobhan (25).
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#1432 Pnina25
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#1433 Rosana25
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#1434 Selina25
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#1435 Siobhan25
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#1436 Temitope25