Sehili
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/seili/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sehili is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic السّْهِيلِي (as-shīlī).
- FRFrance≈1 in 148K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 50K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.2M
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈860 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Arabic السّْهِيلِي (as-shīlī).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sehili 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 50K | listed | Sehili | 5 |
| FR France | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 148K | 73 | Sehili | 136 |
| ES Spain | 16 | 1 in 3.1M | 16 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | Sehili | 6 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 71M | — | Sehili | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the dz-kaggle-names register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mahmoud Sehilib. 1931TNTunisian painter (1931-2015)
- Sofiane Sehilib. 1981FRlong-distance cyclist
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 33 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #71,416 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Sehili mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic السّْهِيلِي (as-shīlī). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sehili?
- A machine transcription gives /seili/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Sehili have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 860 people named Sehili in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sehili.
- How common is the name Sehili?
- In Spain, the national register counted 16 people named Sehili, about 1 in 3.1 million 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/sehiliThe 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, “Sehili”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.