Seliya
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
/sɛɫiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Seliya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 265M(measured from records)
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 265M (inferred from the name graph)
5 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Seliya 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 | 5 | 1 in 265M | 5 | Seliya | 9 |
5 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. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Celia Lovskyb. 1897ATnot in their usual nameAustrian actress (1897-1979)
- Celia Johnsonb. 1908GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (1908–1982)
- Celia Cruzb. 1925CUnot in their usual nameCuban singer (1925–2003)
- Celia Bannermanb. 1944not in their usual nameEnglish actress
- Celia Westonb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1951-)
- Celia Imrieb. 1952GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Celia Freijeirob. 1983ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Ana de Armasb. 1988CUnot in their usual nameCuban actress (born 1988)
- Tatiana Schlossbergb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist and author (1990–2025)
- Celia Rose Goodingb. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Seliya?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛɫiə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Seliya have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5 people named Seliya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seliya.
- Where is Seliya most common?
- Seliya is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 265 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Seliya?
- In India, the national register counted 5 people named Seliya, about 1 in 265 million residents.
What do you want to know about Seliya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seliyaThe 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, “Seliya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.