Sellam
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sellam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 14K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 23K
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
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sellam 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 | #527 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Sellam | 24 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 277 | Sellam | 224 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Sellam | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 235 | 1 in 213K | 370 | Sellam | 27 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 745K | — | Sellam | 7 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Sellam | 14 |
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); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Sellam 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 Latin, accusative singular of sella
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean-Jacques Sellamb. 1948FRFrench politician
- Marc Sellamb. 1949FRFrench businessman
- Adnane Sellamb. 1979CAresearcher and university professor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 310 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 295 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 284 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 277 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 235 | #14,637 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 235 | #14,598 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 72 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
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
- In which country does Sellam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Sellam in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sellam.
- How common is the name Sellam?
- In Spain, the national register counted 235 people named Sellam, about 1 in 213 thousand residents.
- How common is Sellam compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Sellam is the 527th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sellam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sellamThe 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, “Sellam” — the 527th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.