Selina

Meaning of Selina

Selina drifts into the ear like the soft roll of an Italian “l,” a name born, according to most storytellers, from luminous Greek Selene, the moon goddess, yet kissed as well by Latin caelum, “heaven,” so that she carries both night-glow and starry sky in her syllables; and whether one pictures her sipping a late-summer espresso in a sun-washed piazza or slipping, Catwoman-style, across Gotham’s rooftops, she hums with graceful mischief, never loud yet always present—much like the silver coin of moonlight that never quite abandons the sky. In American nurseries she has never chased the flashy, top-ten spotlight, preferring instead a steady shimmer that has illuminated birth charts for well over a century, proof that subtle radiance often outlasts passing neon. Parents who choose Selina gift their daughter a name that sounds like a lullaby, feels like warm Tuscan breezes, and nods—just playfully enough—to comic-book cool; in short, a small piece of la dolce vita, bottled in three melodious beats: suh-LEE-nuh.