How to write “Selena” in Korean

셀레나 sel-le-na Listen to 셀레나, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

What Korean friends call you

• 셀레나야 sel-le-na-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 셀레나 씨 sel-le-na-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Selena

Well-known people named Selena, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Selena Royle — 셀레나 로일
• Séléna Janicijevic — 셀레나 야니치예비치

57,032 babies were named Selena in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 749th most common name.

Block by block

• 셀 = ㅅ + ㅔ + ㄹ · 8 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅔ 에 (e) · 3 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes

  Also in 셀: Russell 러셀 · Axel 악셀

• 레 = ㄹ + ㅔ · 6 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes
  • ㅔ 에 (e) · 3 strokes

  Also in 레: Grace 그레이스 · Rachel 레이첼 · Blake 블레이크

• 나 = ㄴ + ㅏ · 3 strokes
  • ㄴ 니은 (n) · 1 stroke
  • ㅏ 아 (a) · 2 strokes

  Also in 나: Hannah 한나 · Jonathan 조나단 · Brianna 브리애나

셀레나 takes 17 strokes in all.

More names: Alisha 알리샤 · Graham 그레이엄 · Neil 닐 · Vicki 비키 · Amir 아미르

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