Entry № 9359 · Greek origin

Selena Selena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sel-EEN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Moon goddess"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "moon goddess".

Selena is the Spanish and Latin American form of Selene — the Greek Selēnē (Σελήνη), meaning "the moon" and also the name of the Greek goddess of the moon (predecessor of Artemis/Diana).

Selena rose dramatically in the U.S. Today Selena sits in the U.S.

Moon goddess. The Queen of Tejano music.

The name in its native script.

Σελήνη
Transliteration
Selḗnē
Pronunciation
/ səˈliː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Selena stands.

Selena does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Selenas before her.

Real people
Selena Quintanilla
Mexican-American "Queen of Tejano Music."
1971 – 1995
Selena Gomez
American singer, actress, and producer.
born 1992
In fiction
Selene
Greek goddess of the moon.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Selena.

The number behind Selena.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Selena reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.