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How popular is “Selene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Selene” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Selene” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Selene” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Selene” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Selene” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Selene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Selene” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1919 5 0.000002369 5 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 100%
1946 23 0.000007198 23 100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 15 0.000003768 15 100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 100%
1956 17 0.000004123 17 100%
1957 16 0.000003808 16 100%
1958 27 0.000006531 27 100%
1959 33 0.000007937 33 100%
1960 16 0.000003852 16 100%
1961 29 0.000007001 29 100%
1962 30 0.000007434 30 100%
1963 40 0.000010106 40 100%
1964 34 0.000008746 34 100%
1965 41 0.000011309 41 100%
1966 46 0.000013235 46 100%
1967 28 0.000008248 28 100%
1968 25 0.0000074 25 100%
1969 70 0.000020142 70 100%
1970 49 0.000013587 49 100%
1971 46 0.000013402 46 100%
1972 36 0.000011454 36 100%
1973 45 0.000014916 45 100%
1974 39 0.000012829 39 100%
1975 43 0.000014241 43 100%
1976 51 0.000016808 51 100%
1977 64 0.000020148 64 100%
1978 46 0.000014493 46 100%
1979 54 0.000016231 54 100%
1980 54 0.000015677 54 100%
1981 37 0.000010696 37 100%
1982 35 0.000009977 35 100%
1983 43 0.000012416 43 100%
1984 43 0.000012325 43 100%
1985 40 0.000011207 40 100%
1986 43 0.000012089 43 100%
1987 50 0.000013867 50 100%
1988 51 0.000013802 51 100%
1989 85 0.00002211 85 100%
1990 166 0.000041999 166 100%
1991 155 0.000039792 150 5 94%
1992 193 0.000050244 193 100%
1993 215 0.000057025 215 100%
1994 185 0.000049763 185 100%
1995 196 0.00005352 196 100%
1996 118 0.000032354 118 100%
1997 115 0.000031718 115 100%
1998 132 0.000035887 132 100%
1999 138 0.000037359 138 100%
2000 117 0.000030953 117 100%
2001 111 0.000029652 111 100%
2002 131 0.000035043 131 100%
2003 108 0.000028404 108 100%
2004 186 0.000048679 186 100%
2005 168 0.000043695 168 100%
2006 264 0.000066731 264 100%
2007 225 0.000056283 225 100%
2008 202 0.000051391 202 100%
2009 197 0.000051568 197 100%
2010 179 0.000048434 179 100%
2011 170 0.000046476 170 100%
2012 240 0.000065621 240 100%
2013 215 0.000058974 215 100%
2014 194 0.000052342 194 100%
2015 214 0.000057824 214 100%
2016 203 0.000055333 203 100%
2017 292 0.000081651 292 100%
2018 327 0.000093006 327 100%
2019 313 0.000090177 313 100%
2020 337 0.000100881 337 100%
2021 396 0.000116885 396 100%
2022 425 0.000125623 425 100%
2023 401 0.000121104 401 100%
2024 424 0.000127385 424 100%

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