Sellas
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: second-person singular present indicative of sellar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɛɫəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sellas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cuba than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- CUCuba≈1 in 34K
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 75K
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.
- Cuba (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cuba, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
second-person singular present indicative of sellar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sellas is read(measured from records)
Sellas is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English63%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sellas in English.
- Spanish17%
second-person singular present indicative of sellar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.0%
second-person singular past historic of seller
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sellas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CU Cuba | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Sellas | 1 |
| US United States | 281 | 1 in 1.2M | 281 | Sellas | 118 |
| ES Spain | 161 | 1 in 311K | 161 | Sellas | 47 |
| FR France | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 819K | 2 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 10 | Sellas | 7 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Sellas | 4 |
| GR Greece | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 279K | 2 | Sellas | 20 |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Sellas | 6 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Sellas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, second-person singular present subjunctive of sellar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, accusative plural 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)
- Matteo Sellasb. 1580DEGerman luthier (1580–1661)
- Toni Sellas Güellb. 1973ESCatalan journalist
- Jordi Sellas i Ferrésb. 1977ESCatalan Cultural sector manager
- Guillem Mateo Sellasb. 1982ESSpanish politician
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 281 | #69,793 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 256 | #80,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 256 | #71,143 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 161 | #19,458 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 161 | #19,391 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 16 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 10 | #143,714 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Sellas mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present indicative of sellar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sellas?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛɫəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sellas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 326 people named Sellas in Cuba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sellas.
- How common is the name Sellas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 281 people named Sellas in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sellasThe 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, “Sellas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.