Selena

Selena is a Latinate shimmer of the Greek Selene, goddess of the moon, who rode a silver chariot across the night sky in Greek myth. The name has two American guardians: Selena Quintanilla, the Tejano singer whose 1995 death turned her into an icon, and Selena Gomez, whose Disney-to-pop trajectory introduced the name to a new generation. Between them, Selena has held steadily inside the U.S. top 300 since the mid-1990s. Three syllables with a lunar lift — seh-LAY-na. Bilingual in feel, moonlit in root, musical in every direction the name has traveled.