Selene is the Greek word for "moon" and the name of the Titan goddess of the moon, who drove her silver chariot across the night sky and fell in love with the shepherd Endymion. The Latin form Selena is more familiar in the United States, but the Greek spelling, pronounced seh-LEEN, has grown with the taste for mythological names. Selene entered the top 1000 in 2017 and reached number 623 in 2025, its highest rank so far.