Sélia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sélia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Sheila. Senan [Séanan] (m) A diminutive of sean, ‘old’. Sinon and Sinan are variants.
- BRBrazil1 in 69K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 439K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
3,058 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Selia in US United States, BR Brazil, ZM Zambia and 5 more.
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)
- EnglishSheila(inferred from the name graph)via Sheila
- IrishSíle(inferred from the name graph)via Sheila
- LatinCecilia(inferred from the name graph)via Sheila
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Sheila. Senan [Séanan] (m) A diminutive of sean, ‘old’. Sinon and Sinan are variants.
Sources 2
- Irish first names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sélia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 3,058 | 1 in 69K | 4.6K | Selia | 48 |
| US United States | — | 757 | 1 in 439K | 757 | Selia | 136 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Selia | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 806K | — | Selia | 9 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Selia | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Selia | 11 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Selia | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 44 | 1 in 127K | 75 | — | 2 |
| ZM Zambia | #674 | — | — | — | Selia | 8 |
3,058 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.6K | #3,556 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sélia mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Sheila. Senan [Séanan] (m) A diminutive of sean, ‘old’. Sinon and Sinan are variants. Recorded by Irish first names and Nordic Names.
- Is Sélia a male or female name?
- Sélia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sélia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Sélia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled selia.
- How common is the name Sélia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,058 people named Sélia in 2022, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
- How common is Sélia compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Sélia is the 674th most common given name of 8,845 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A9liaThe 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, “Sélia” — the 674th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.