Selina
seh-LEE-nuh
A graceful name commonly linked to the moon.
Meaning
The name is usually explained as coming from Greek Selene, the moon goddess, so the core sense is 'moon' or 'of the moon.' One excerpt also notes the French Celine as an intermediary form that may have suggested the English Selina. A minority tradition in one source glosses it as 'a nightingale,' but the moon derivation is the stronger and more widely repeated explanation in the excerpts.
Origin
GreekFrenchEnglishfeminine
Fun fact
One 19th-century source says Selina may have been suggested by the French Celine, while another points readers to Selene, the Greek word for moon.