Sélla
surname · Latin script
Sélla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,237 people, counted by IBGE. Recorded meaning: From Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.
- ARArgentina1 in 70K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 171K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 247K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sélla itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
1,237 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Soll in US United States and Sella in ES Spain.
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)- Latinsella(measured from records)
- Proto-Italic*sedlā(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*sed-(measured from records)
From Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sélla is found
(measured from records)Sélla 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 | 1,237 | 1 in 171K | 1.2K | — | — |
| US United States | 712as Soll | 1 in 467K | 717 | Soll | 38 |
| AR Argentina | 647 | 1 in 70K | 647 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 71as Soll | 1 in 83K | 71 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 64 | 1 in 781K | 64 | Sella | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 27as Soll | 1 in 206K | 145 | — | — |
1,237 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 Sélla mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sélla?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Sélla, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Argentina, Denmark and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sélla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sélla is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 70 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sélla?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,237 people named Sélla, about 1 in 171 thousand 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/s%C3%A9llaThe 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, “Sélla” — ranked 7625th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.