Selje
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Selje is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 124 people, counted by SSB.
- NONorway1 in 44K(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.9Mfew records
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.6Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
124 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Selje is found
(measured from records)Selje 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 124 | 1 in 44K | 124 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Selje | 57 |
| DE Germany | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Selje | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Selje | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Selje | 4 |
124 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Selje 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 Latvian, Dubļu vai dubļu un akmeņu plūsma, kas pēkšņi rodas kalnu upju gultnēs krasu uzplūdienu, piemēram, sniega kušanas laikā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Selje?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 124 people named Selje, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Germany, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Selje most common?
- Selje is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 44 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Selje?
- In Norway, the national register counted 124 people named Selje, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Selje?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seljeThe 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, “Selje” — ranked 10274th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.