se-LEEN, se-LEE-nee
Selene
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About Selene
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Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,251 | 194 | 108.6 |
| 2015 | #1,180 | 214 | 119.9 |
| 2016 | #1,216 | 203 | 114.6 |
| 2017 | #918 | 292 | 169.1 |
| 2018 | #832 | 327 | 192.2 |
| 2019 | #858 | 313 | 186.5 |
| 2020 | #805 | 337 | 208.5 |
| 2021 | #724 | 396 | 241.3 |
| 2022 | #691 | 425 | 259.1 |
| 2023 | #708 | 401 | 249.9 |
| 2024 | #675 | 424 | 261.7 |
| 2025 | #623 | 469 | 291.8 |
World rankings
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Famous Selenes
- 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
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]
Variations & nicknames
- SélèneFrench
