Sellars
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsɛɫɝz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sellars is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): N England: esp. WR. variant of Sellar with post-medieval excrescent -s.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): N England: esp. WR. variant of Sellar with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Roy Wood Sellarsb. 1880USAmerican philosopher (1880–1973)
- Harry Sellarsb. 1902GBFootballer (1902-1978)
- Wilfrid Sellarsb. 1912USAmerican philosopher (1912-1989)
- Elizabeth Sellarsb. 1923GBScottish actress (1921–2019)
- John Sellarsb. 1924GBEnglish footballer (1924-1985)
- Peter Sellarsb. 1957USAmerican theatre director (born 1957)
- Scott Sellarsb. 1965GBEnglish footballer (born 1965)
- Mandy Sellarsb. 1975GBBritish woman with genetic mutation
- Luke Sellarsb. 1981CAIce Hockey Player
- Stephanie SellarsUSAmerican actor, musician and writer
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.2K | #5,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.8K | #5,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.6K | #5,906 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 3.4K | #2,337 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #86,353 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #383,752 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #161,638 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sellars mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): N England: esp. WR. variant of Sellar with post-medieval excrescent -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sellars?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɛɫɝz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sellars have the most bearers?
- Sellars is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Sellars?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sellarsThe 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, “Sellars”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.