Selma
14
Babies in 2024
-30%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 28
-18%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Selma
Selma appears in the official UK girls' name list for 2024, ranked #2,000 with 14 girls registered in England & Wales.
Selma reached its peak in 2017, when 28 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,219 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 14 represents 50% of the peak.
Across 28 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 407 girls have been officially registered with the name Selma in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 177 girls were registered with the name, starting from 20 in 2014 and ending at 14 in 2024.