girls:
5.1k births since 1889
#2354 (59th percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1889
#3806 (51st percentile)
The name Salena is the #3,806 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,139 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 50.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,354 (58.8% percentile) for all time with 5,139 births since 1889.
Salena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (first recorded for girls in 1889). Birth data for Salena is available in 107 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Salena reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 23.7% percentile (ranked #586) with 114 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 114 births per million (ranked 23.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Salena ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 7.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Salena".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Salena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Salena is pronounced as suh-LEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables.
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