Selene
Selene is a girl name of Greek origin, meaning Goddess of the moon.
What Selene means
Goddess of the moon.
Selene sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Selene comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Selene is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Selene?
You will not find Selene in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Selene
We group Selene under Moon and the stars and sky — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Selene
These share Selene's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Delia — Of Delos; the moon goddess.
- Nyx — Night; goddess of night.
- Luna — The moon.
- Stellaluna — Star and moon.
- Tsuki — The moon.
- Nguyet — The moon.
- Astra — Of the stars.
- Cosima — Order; beauty; the universe.
- Hesper — The evening star.
- Lyra — Lyre; harp.
- Theia — Goddess; divine.
- Orion — The hunter; a brilliant constellation.