Saleena
Feminine
Saleena writes a familiar sound with a doubled e, and the letters land close to a word that is all over the map of the American west. A salina is a salt flat, and towns grew wherever one was worth working.
How old is the name Saleena?
Saleena first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Saleena alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 800 people named Saleena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Saleena most popular?
Saleena peaked in 1996, reaching #3149 nationally. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Saleena
Salt was one of the few things worth hauling a long distance before refrigeration, and settlements grew around every source of it. The Latin word for a salt pan is salina, and it turns up as a place name across the Spanish-speaking world and then across the American west and midwest: Salinas in California, Salina in Kansas, the Salina Turnpike, salt springs and salt licks named in half a dozen languages. Roman soldiers were partly paid in an allowance connected with salt, which is where the word salary comes from, and a man who was worth it was worth his salt. The mineral shaped trade routes, taxes and revolutions, and it is now the cheapest thing in the kitchen.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Selena, Selina and Salina have all been proposed and they have different histories: one Greek, one argued over, one a Latin word for a salt pan. Nothing in the record chooses between them.
Pronouncing Saleena
suh-LEE-nuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The doubled e writes a long e and nothing else.
Nicknames for Saleena
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 199637 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3149reached in 1996
- Change vs 2023
- −25.0%6 in 2024, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Saleenas among us
people named Saleena are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Saleena sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Lena and Sal are both available as short forms and both stand alone.
- The stress falls where an English reader expects, so first attempts usually land correctly.
- It works in English and Spanish-speaking households without adjustment.
- Selena, Selina and Salina are all commoner, so this spelling will be corrected regularly.
- One Tejano singer owns the sound in a great many American minds, and her story ends badly.
- No origin is documented for this spelling, so the meaning question has three candidates and no answer.
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Frequently asked
- How many Saleenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Saleena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Saleena in 2025?
- Saleena is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Saleena with classmates?
- Saleena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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