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Baby name
Selma
Girl
Origin of the name
Selma has several possible origins. The Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, made it famous.
Comeback name
26,881births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 223rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Selma are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Selma is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Selma is most common in North Dakota (4.6 times), New York (3.5) and North Carolina (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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