Sellan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of sellar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/seʎan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sellan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.3M
- UYUruguay1 in 87K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
5,169 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person plural present indicative of sellar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sellan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #557 | 5,169 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.2K | Sellan | 27 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Sellan | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 250 | 1 in 200K | 250 | Sellan | 45 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 265K | listed | Sellan | 17 |
| US United States | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | Sellan | 81 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Sellan | 23 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 39 | 1 in 87K | 39 | Sellan | 7 |
5,169 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Sellan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução dialetal setentrional de Sellano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Asturian, third-person plural present subjunctive of sellar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, to give
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)
- Guido Sellanb. 1910ITItalian association football player
- Karl Sellanb. 1985CACanadian ice hockey player
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Sellan mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of sellar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sellan?
- A machine transcription gives /seʎan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Sellan have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Sellan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sellan.
- Where is Sellan most common?
- Sellan is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sellan?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 5,169 people named Sellan in 2024, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Sellan compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Sellan is the 557th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sellanThe 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, “Sellan” — the 557th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.