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I agree with those who point out this name was more masculine than feminine in the USA before the 20th century. One of the poems in the famous book "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters, published in 1915, is about a man named Selah. Since the poems in the book are said to be what people's real epitaphs in cemeteries should look like, Masters meant the judge mentioned in the poem to be born sometime in the 19th century.https://www.bartleby.com/84/94.html
Main character of the film Selah and the Spades (2019) by Tayarisha Poe.
Selah Marley is the daughter of American R&B singer and rapper Lauryn Hill.
In the book Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle, Selah is the name of Noah's (as in the Biblical Noah's) pet mammoth.
SELAH is the name of a Christian rock band.

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