Sellès
surname · Latin script
Sellès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Kent. see Seales .
- CRCosta Rica1 in 9.2K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 15K
- FRFrance≈1 in 53K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
3,400 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Selles in ES Spain, FR France, BR Brazil and 4 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)Main GB Location (1881): Kent. see Seales .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sellès 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 3,400 | 1 in 15K | 3.4K | Selles | 97 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 161 | Selles | 200 |
| BR Brazil | — | 703 | 1 in 301K | 703 | Selles | 51 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 577 | 1 in 30K | 577 | Selles | 37 |
| CR Costa Rica | #367 | 556 | 1 in 9.2K | 556 | Selles | 11 |
| PA Panama | #587 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 3 | Selles | 27 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Selles | 7 |
3,400 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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 Sellès mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Kent. see Seales . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Sellès have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Sellès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled selles.
- Where is Sellès most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sellès is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 9.2 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sellès?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,400 people named Sellès, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Sellès compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Sellès is the 367th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sell%C3%A8sThe 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, “Sellès” — the 367th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.