Salina
Salina is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. Its best rank was 495th, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 290.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1977385 births
- Best rank
- #495in 1977
- Since 1882
- 7,203people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,203 girls have been named Salina in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 385 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1990s alone account for 25%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Salina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 24 | |
| 1890s | 54 | |
| 1900s | 46 | |
| 1910s | 79 | |
| 1920s | 83 | |
| 1930s | 34 | |
| 1940s | 40 | |
| 1950s | 114 | |
| 1960s | 357 | |
| 1970s | 1,420 | |
| 1980s | 1,735 | |
| 1990s | 1,827 | |
| 2000s | 752 | |
| 2010s | 470 | |
| 2020s | 168 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Salina was the 495th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Salina
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaimeepeak 1990
- Griseldapeak 1993
- Jameepeak 1985
- Chasitypeak 1976
- Karapeak 1991
- Jaymipeak 1985
- Carapeak 1985
- Tabithapeak 1978
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.