Selir

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Selir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

  • HRCroatia1 in 352K(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

Croatia (measured from records)

12 people, 2021

Record sources
5 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 352K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Šeliř in HR Croatia.

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

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)

Selir 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.

Where Selir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia121 in 352K14Šeliř5
RS Serbia———Selir1
BR Brazil——86——

12 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Selir is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Šelíř, Šeliř

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Şelir

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Şelir

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Selir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, concubine, a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Selir under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Selir have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 12 people named Selir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šeliř.
Where is Selir most common?
Selir is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 352 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Selir?
In Croatia, the national register counted 12 people named Selir in 2021, about 1 in 352 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Selir?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/selir

The 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, “Selir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Selir parses inside a full name →