Selia

girls:

731 births since 1918

#4985 (13th percentile)

overall:

731 births since 1918

#7008 (9th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Selia".

1918 2023 19182023

Key Statistics

Total Births
731
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
1945
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
1.8%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#567
Current Rank
#946
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Selia

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Selia. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 50.0% confident that Selia is pronounced as SEE-lee-uh. The next most likely pronunciation is SEH-lee-uh, at 31.0% confidence.

SEE-lee-uh (3 syllables)
50.0% confidence
S IY1 L IY0 AH0
SEH-lee-uh (3 syllables)
Verified
31.0% confidence
S EH1 L IY0 AH0
SIH-lee-uh (3 syllables)
9.5% confidence
S IH1 L IY0 AH0
SEEL-yuh (2 syllables)
9.5% confidence
S IY1 L Y AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Selia. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Selia, please vote using the thumbs up button.

SEHL-yuh (2 syllables)
3 names 56k births
S EH1 L Y AH0
SEE-luh (2 syllables)
16 names 15.7k births
S IY1 L AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S IY1 L IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.