Selene

se-LEEN, se-LEE-nee

Greek

"moon"

Selene Origin and Meaning

Variation of Céline

Selene Rank in US Top 1000

# 675 in the US

Selene Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 472 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Selene

• 675 US 2024
• 472 Nameberry 2025
• 846 Future 2028

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Famous People Named Selene

• Cleopatra Selene II daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, twin sister of Alexander Helios (Helios and Selene are Greek for "sun" and "moon," respectively)
• Selene Luna Mexican actress
• Selene Here Vigil Wilk, American singer of band 7 Year Bitch

The name Selene in Pop Culture

• Selene character in the Underworld movie franchise
• Selene Gallio villain in X,Men comics
• Selene birth name of Cinder, main character of Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles series
• Selene sabre,toothed tiger on TV series "Cro"
• Selene Lindstrom character in Isaac Asimov's novel "The Gods Themselves"
• Selene alias used by Lanfear in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
• Selene Waites character in "Another Thing to Fall" by Laura Lippman
• "The heathenish given name of this young woman was pronounced as Say lay,nay by herself and her father; Aaron later compromised as Say,lane; most people, including the Bois missionaries, called her See,lean. That it was an appellation of the swift moon goddess (something that Aaron never knew and Selene may not have known) was not too unsuitable." [Sinclair Lewis, "The God,seeker," 1949]

International Variations of the name Selene

• Sélène French