Selket (also Serqet) is the ancient Egyptian goddess of scorpions and healing — protector against venomous bites. One of the four goddesses who guarded the canopic jars of the dead. Her statue stood at the foot of Tutankhamun's golden shrine.
Rare but iconic in Egyptophilia.
Selket 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Selket reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.