Selene

Selene was a Titaness, not a goddess. Check out Greek gods dot org if you don't believe me. Look up Theia, her first-gen Titaness mother. Under her name you will clearly see that Selene is her daughter. Just wanted to let you guys know. [noted -ed]

Selene it is also said, in Greece, that comes from the word selas. Selas means light and this is what we call northern lights in Greece "βόρειο σέλας". Some of course believe that Selene and Helen are synonymous names, (of the same meaning) which is the "shining one", because both of them come from the word selas.

Selena would be a latinized version of Selene. I do like both names.

(Greek Σελήνη) Selếnê.

By the way, the Greek goddess Selene had a sister, Eos (EE-os), or dawn, and a brother, Helios (HEE-lee-os), or sun. In one of the myths associated with the goddess, she falls in love with a shepherd named Endymion, and as she knows better than to ask that he be granted eternal life without eternal youth, she asks instead of Zeus, her father, that he be granted everlasting sleep. She then visits him in dreams, in which Endymion holds the moon in his arms.

This beautiful name has two meanings. One is that she's identified with the Roman Goddess Luna; second is a genus of carangidae. Synonym: Genus Selene.