About the name Selene
Selene belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Selene first appears in Social Security records in 1919. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #675 in 2024, and in 2024 424 babies received the name — 9,240 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.