How Many People Are Named Sela?
people named Sela are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 260,705 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,328 babies named Sela in Social Security records from 1950 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
81 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "rock" in Hebrew. This was the name of a city, the capital of Edom, in the Old Testament.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sela in English. Counting Sela and these spellings together, about 16,600 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Sela in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Sela alive today is about 18 years old, and 90% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Sela first appears in the records in 1950 and was given most often in 2000, to 81 babies. In 2025, 29 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1950 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Sela has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #2,044, in 2000. In 2025 it ranked #4,737.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,737 |
| Best rank | #2,044 (2000) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,714 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Sela alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sela were born in California than in any other state: about 166 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sela was given about 4.3 times as often in California.
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