Meaning and history
Selah is a Hebrew musical term that appears many times in the Old Testament Psalms and was probably meant to indicate a musical pause.
20062006: 324 births, rank #832
2007: 344 births, rank #833
2008: 380 births, rank #772
2009: 419 births, rank #694
2010: 460 births, rank #642
20112011: 506 births, rank #575
2012: 575 births, rank #527
2013: 552 births, rank #538
2014: 577 births, rank #539
2015: 690 births, rank #461
20162016: 688 births, rank #462
2017: 695 births, rank #455
2018: 732 births, rank #432
2019: 701 births, rank #443
2020: 722 births, rank #425
20212021: 828 births, rank #376
2022: 885 births, rank #357
2023: 1,027 births, rank #301
2024: 1,134 births, rank #279
20252025: 1,416 births, rank #216
Selah rose from #279 to #216 for girls between 2024 and 2025. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 1,416.