Šelma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: beast of prey (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Šelma is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 94,743 people, counted by IBGE in 2022. In Bosnia & Herzegovina it is the 90th most common given name. Šelma is also written Сельма in Cyrillic.
- SESweden1 in 709(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 947
- ISIceland1 in 996
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šelma 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 709 (inferred from the name graph)
94,743 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Šelma in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Selma in NO Norway, SE Sweden, US United States and 1 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)beast of prey
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šelma 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 | — | 94,743 | 1 in 2.2K | 102K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 14,394 | 1 in 709 | 14K | Selma | 16 |
| US United States | — | 9,055 | 1 in 37K | 9K | Selma | 75 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,776 | 1 in 947 | 20K | Selma | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 3,514 | 1 in 1.7K | 3.5K | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 3,155 | 1 in 1.8K | 13K | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 352 | 1 in 996 | 352 | — | — |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #90 | — | — | — | Selma | 29 |
94,743 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 Šelma mean, and where does it come from?
- beast of prey Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Šelma a male or female name?
- Šelma is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Šelma?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 95 thousand people named Šelma, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden, United States, Norway and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šelma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šelma is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 709 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šelma?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 94,743 people named Šelma in 2022, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Šelma compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Šelma is the 90th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1elmaThe 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, “Šelma” — ranked 334th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.