Sélly
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sélly is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Devon. see Sealey . 2 English: see Selley .
- NLNetherlands1 in 393K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 729K
- BRBrazil1 in 2.4M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 393K (inferred from the name graph)
130 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Selly in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Devon. see Sealey . 2 English: see Selley .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sélly 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 130 | 1 in 2.6M | 162 | Selly | 114 |
| BR Brazil | 90 | 1 in 2.4M | 90 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 44 | 1 in 393K | 44 | Selly | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 28M | — | Selly | 23 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
130 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 Sélly mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Devon. see Sealey . 2 English: see Selley . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Sélly a male or female name?
- Sélly 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 Sélly have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 130 people named Sélly, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled selly.
- Where is Sélly most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sélly is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 393 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sélly?
- In the United States, the national register counted 130 people named Sélly in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sélly?
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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%A9llyThe 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, “Sélly”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.