Selma Name Meaning & Origin
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Feminine short form of Anselm, meaning 'God's helmet'.
Variant of Salma.
From the name of Fingal's castle in the Ossian poem by Macpherson, Celtic shelma 'beautiful view'.- Famous real-life people named Selma
Selma Blair, American actress.
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and first woman to win the Nobel prize for literature.
Selma Hayek, Mexican American film actress, director and producer.
Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer, actress, and 2x Eurovision contestant (1999 and 2005)- Selma in song, story & screen
Selma, character in Kahlil Gibran's story "Broken Wings"
Selma Bouvier, sister of Marge in the cartoon series "The Simpsons"
"Selma" is a song by Bosnian band Bijelo Dugme