Salina
Feminine · “salt pan”
Salina is the Latin word for a salt pan, and salt was valuable enough in the ancient world that a Roman soldier's pay is said to have been connected to it.
How old is the name Salina?
Salina first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Salina alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 6,700 people named Salina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Salina most popular?
Salina peaked in 1977, reaching #495 nationally. Today it ranks #4067, 3,572 places below that high. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
From sal to Salina
The story of Salina
Salt mattered enormously — the Via Salaria into Rome was the salt road, and the word salary comes from sal by a route that is argued about but real. Salinas and Salina name places across Italy, Spain, Mexico and the American west where salt was worked. The name appears in American records in real numbers in the 1970s, largely as a variant of Selina.
Meaningscholars disagree
salt pan, salt works
Latin salinae names the pans where sea water is evaporated for salt, from sal, salt. A separate reading treats Salina as a spelling of Selina, from Greek Selene, the moon. The two are unrelated and both are in use.
How the name formed
- sal
- salinae
- Salina
Related forms: Salina · Selina · Salina
Pronouncing Salina
sah-LEE-nah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Salina
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
- 1882
- Most girls named
- 1993252 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #495reached in 1977
- Change vs 2023
- −7.9%35 in 2025, from 38
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.
Salina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Salina in Spanish — same name
- Selina in English — related form
- Salina in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Pennsylvania, New York.
Salinas among us
people named Salina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 45,922 born in 2025 was named Salina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darleen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Salina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darleen climbed just as high around 1943, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darleen's path sketches the road Salina is walking now.
Salina sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Salina is headed
Salina should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Salina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Salina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Sal and Lina are both complete short forms in their own right.
- Two documented sources, Latin and Greek, both real.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- Selina and Salina are constantly confused and mean quite different things.
- A Kansas city carries the name, said differently — suh-LY-nuh.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade.
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Frequently asked
- How many Salinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,700 people named Salina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Salina in 2025?
- Salina ranks #4067 among US girl names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Salina?
- About 1 in every 45,922 US girls born in 2025 was named Salina — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Salina with classmates?
- Salina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Salina
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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