Selin is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Selin is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Selin. In the SmartGenius ranking, Selin is #4,386 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Selin.
In fact, the name Selin hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Selin wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1999, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,758, 44 parents chose it in 1999 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Selin, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Selin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Selin a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 5,448, for a total of 19 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Selin seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Selin in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 314 women and girls named Selin, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 314 women and girls named Selin live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey and New York. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Selin. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Selin lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Selin and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Selin relative to its female population is New York. And even there, only one in 93,963 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Selin.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Selin is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Selin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Selin, you can simply say:
Sun
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Selin
Selin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Selin sounds like this:
