Selvanayagam
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/səlvanajaɡam/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated
Selvanayagam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 84Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 105K
- NONorway1 in 171K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, 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 the surname Selvanayagam is found
(measured from records)Selvanayagam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Selvanayagam | 22 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Selvanayagam | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | 80 | 1 in 105K | 80 | Selvanayagam | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 648K | — | Selvanayagam | 30 |
| AU Australia | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 486K | — | Selvanayagam | 40 |
| NO Norway | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | — |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Selvanayagam?
- In Malay /səlvanajaɡam/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Selvanayagam?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Selvanayagam in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled selvanayagam. After it come Malaysia, Switzerland, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Selvanayagam?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 80 people named Selvanayagam in 2024, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Selvanayagam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/selvanayagamThe 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, “Selvanayagam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.