Selena appears 58 times in the registries at rank 1752, strongly female. The name belongs to two towering Selenas in popular music: Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the Queen of Tejano music whose 1995 murder at 23 made her a permanent cultural icon, and Selena Gomez, whose career has spanned child stardom to pop music to acting to wellness entrepreneurship. Together they make Selena one of the more culturally loaded names in the female pet registry.
Two Selenas, Two Eras
Quintanilla's Selena represented a Latinx crossover moment; her English-language album was released days before her death, promising a mainstream pop career that never arrived. The mourning was, and remains, profound in Mexican American communities. Gomez's Selena carries that name into a different generation. The name in the registry almost always signals tribute to one or both — browse the pet names hub to see how frequently music-tribute names cluster.
Sound and Fit
Three syllables, stress on the middle, open final vowel: Selena flows easily in daily pet-owner speech. It's long enough to feel substantial but rhythmic enough to call across a yard. Female dogs with warmth and personality carry it well — Labrador Retrievers and mixed-breed dogs especially.
Counter-Reading
Selena is a fully current human name — Selena Gomez keeps it perpetually contemporary — which means naming a pet Selena may occasionally cause the familiar confusion of a pet name that sounds like it should belong to a person. For most owners, that overlap is part of the tribute.