Selina

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Celina (see also -lina)

Related Names

See Celina

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Selinuson

Female

Selinudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Selina
Genitive:	Selinas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Selina
Genitive:	Selinan
Partitive:	Selinaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Selina
Accusative:	Selinu
Dative:	Selinu
Genitive:	Selinu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Selina
Genitive:	Selinas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Selina
Genitive:	Selinas

Name Day

Finland

23 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1809 (Stockholm)
• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 27 October 2017

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: -1919
• Denmark: 1960-
• Norway: 1995-2008

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Medelpad (19th century) see map
  • Nordsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 365 people were named Selina (percentage of first or only given name: 11 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Finland		n.a.	2547	n.a.	2547	0	0
Sweden		541	876	541	876	0	0
Denmark		876	n.a.	876	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		3	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		470	n.a.	470	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Selina (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.