Śêl
given name · Latin script
Śêl is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish سل (sel), a vulgar variant of سیل (seyl), from Arabic سَيْل (sayl).
- BEBelgium1 in 32K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 45K
- SISlovenia1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
949 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Ottoman Turkishسلsel(measured from records)
- Arabicسَيْلsayl(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish سل (sel), a vulgar variant of سیل (seyl), from Arabic سَيْل (sayl).
Cited for this meaning 5
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Śêl counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 949 | 1 in 1.4M | 949 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 370 | 1 in 32K | 370 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 122 | 1 in 45K | 122 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 105 | 1 in 2M | 105 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 51 | 1 in 339K | 51 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 40 | 1 in 53K | 40 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 25 | 1 in 336K | 25 | — | — |
949 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Śêl mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish سل (sel), a vulgar variant of سیل (seyl), from Arabic سَيْل (sayl). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Śêl have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 949 people named Śêl, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Śêl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Śêl is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Śêl?
- In India, the national register counted 949 people named Śêl, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9B%C3%AAlThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Śêl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.