Selma

German

"godly helmet"

Selma Origin and Meaning

Variation of Salome

Selma Rank in US Top 1000

# 947 in the US

Popularity of the name Selma

• 1880 Nameberry 2025
• 228 Germany 2016
• 7 sweden 2024
• 9 Norway 2024
• 37 Finland 2024
• 177 switzerland 2019

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Famous People Named Selma

• Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf Swedish author; 1st woman to win Literature Nobel Prize
• Selma Adzem Bosnian singer
• Selma Bajrami Albanian,Bosnian pop star
• Selma Blair American actress
• Selma Björnsdóttir Icelandic singer
• Selma Ergec Turkish,German actress, beauty queen, & doctor
• Selma Harrington Bosnian,Irish architect & designer
• Selma Kurz Austrian opera singer
• Selma Mekic Bosnian TV host
• Selma Yagci Turkish boxer
• Selma Diamond American actress

The name Selma in Pop Culture

• Selma Bouvier character on "The Simpsons;" twin of sister Patty
• Selma Malet character in Mary A. Dickens' "Cross Currents"
• Selma character in Kenize Mourad's "Regards from the Dead Princess"
• Selma character on "The Crazy, Confused & Normal"
• Selma Ježková main character in the musical "Dancer in the Dark"
• Selma St. George character in Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne
• Selma Quickly Character in the Nanny McPhee series
• Selma city in Alabama
• "Selma " 2014 film about the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama