Selina

This article is about the name. For other uses, see Selina (disambiguation).
Selina
An Ancient Roman bust of the goddess Selene, the personification of the Moon.
Pronunciation/səˈliːnə/
Genderfemale
Origin
LanguagesGreek, Latin
Meaning“Moon” or “woman from the Caecilia gens”
Other names
Related namesCecilia, Celina, Salina, Selena, Selene, Selin

Selina (/səˈliːnə/) is a feminine given name, considered either a variant of Selene, the goddess and personification of the Moon in Greek mythology and religion, or a spelling variation of the name Celina, which is derived from the Roman name Cecilia, referring to a woman from the Caecilia gens. This spelling variant had begun to be used in the United Kingdom by the 1600s.[1]

People

Variants

  • A Spanish version of the name is Selena.
  • A Greek version of the name is Σελένα.
  • A French version of the name is Sélène.
  • A Hebrew version of the name is סלינה.
  • A Turkish version of the name is Selin.

Fictional characters

  • Selina Peake De Jong, the protagonist of Edna Ferber's novel So Big
  • Selina Kyle (disambiguation), alter ego of the original Catwoman, the DC Comics character
  • Selina Meyer, protagonist of the HBO television comedy series Veep
  • Selina Roberts, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
  • Selina, the secondary antagonist in the sixth season of Winx Club
  • Selina Khan, main character from CBBC's Wolfblood
  • Selina D'Arcey, main character from 1965 American film A Patch of Blue
  • Selina Plymdale, a character in Middlemarch - a novel by English author George Eliot

Other

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 243. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.

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