Sellis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first attested John Selawe 1443 CtH; etymology not shown in excerpt
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sellis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 59K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 88K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
291 people, 2007
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
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)
first attested John Selawe 1443 CtH; etymology not shown in excerpt
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sellis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 291 | 1 in 59K | 291 | Sellis | 16 |
| BR Brazil | 152 | 1 in 1.4M | 152 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 106 | Sellis | 102 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 25 | Sellis | 32 |
| GR Greece | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 432K | 1 | Sellis | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 421K | — | Sellis | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 315K | — | Sellis | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 18 | — | 2 |
291 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Sellis 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.
Gali būti su patronimine priesaga -iūnas iš Seilius (žr.) arba tiesiog iš liet. seilunas „seilius; tuščiakalbis, neišmanėlis, menkysta“ (LKŽ XII 311)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latin, dative/ablative 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)
- Timos Sellisb. 1959GRresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-9067-5639
- Urmas Sellisb. 1963EEEstonian ornithologist and conservationist (born 1963)
- Siim Sellisb. 1987EEEstonian cross-country skier (born 1987)
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 291 | #7,118 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 152 | #45,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 106 | #143,847 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 25 | #78,618 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 18 | #6,150 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 16 | #7,113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Sellis mean, and where does it come from?
- first attested John Selawe 1443 CtH; etymology not shown in excerpt Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Sellis have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 291 people named Sellis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sellis.
- Where is Sellis most common?
- Sellis is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sellis?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 291 people named Sellis in 2007, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sellisThe 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, “Sellis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.