Entry № 9361 · Turkish origin

Selin Selin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SEH-leen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
"Mountain stream / torrent (modern Turkish popular)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Turkish)

A name that means "mountain stream / torrent (modern turkish popular)".

Selin is from the Turkish selin (mountain stream, rushing waters, torrent). Selin Hızlı — modern Turkish figure. Selin Geçit — Turkish artist. Selin Sönmez — Turkish journalist. Selin Doğan — modern Turkish-American figure. Princess Selin — modern Turkish heritage naming.

Mountain stream / torrent (Turkish).

The name in its native script.

Selin
Transliteration
Selin
Pronunciation
/ sɛˈliːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Selin stands.

Selin 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.

Selins before her.

Real people
Selin Sayek Böke
Turkish CHP Vice-Chair + World Bank economist.
born 1972
In fiction
Selin
Turkish mountain stream.

Names connected to Selin.

The number behind Selin.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Selin reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.