Sela Girl
How popular is Sela?
#4,660 girl name in 2025
29 baby girls were named Sela in the US in 2025, making it the 4660th most popular girl name.
Sela popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #4,660 for girls (▼ 547 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 29 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (0% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,724 in 2015, #6,079 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2000 (81 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,030 in 2000 |
| First recorded | 1950 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sela counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Selah family of names ranked #233 for girls in 2025 (#290 the year before), with 1,445 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Selah | 1,416 | 98% |
| Sela | 29 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sela is most popular
Babies named Sela per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (16 girls)
Sela by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 17 | #4,917 |
| 1970s | 13 | #8,059 |
| 1980s | 17 | #6,783 |
| 1990s | 188 | #3,564 |
| 2000s | 615 | #2,030 |
| 2010s | 324 | #3,437 |
| 2020s | 154 | #4,113 |
Girl names about as popular as Sela
Questions
- Is Sela a boy or girl name?
- Sela is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sela were girls.
- How popular is the name Sela?
- 29 baby girls were named Sela in the US in 2025, making it the 4660th most popular girl name.
- When was Sela most popular?
- Sela peaked in 2000, when 81 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,030 in 2000.
- How many people are named Sela?
- 1,328 babies have been named Sela in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,313 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 20.
- Where is Sela most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sela was most common in New York, at 0.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.