Selvaraj
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Selvaraj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Tamil செல்வராஜ் (celvarāj).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 20Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 26Kfew records
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Tamil செல்வராஜ் (celvarāj).
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Selvaraj is found
(measured from records)Selvaraj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Selvaraj | 46 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Selvaraj | 23 |
| US United States | — | 622 | 1 in 535K | 1.4K | Selvaraj | 217 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Selvaraj | 45 |
| IN India | — | 355 | 1 in 3.7M | 355 | Selvaraj | 179 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Selvaraj | 44 |
| AO Angola | #768 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Selvaraj | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | #919 | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Selvaraj | 8 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- James Selvarajb. 1950MYbadminton player
- Ranjinib. 1970INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
- Kavitha Selvarajb. 2000INIndian female Kabaddi 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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Selvaraj mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Tamil செல்வராஜ் (celvarāj). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Selvaraj?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Selvaraj in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled selvaraj. After it come Sri Lanka, United States, United Arab Emirates and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Selvaraj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 622 people named Selvaraj in 2010, about 1 in 535 thousand residents.
- How common is Selvaraj compared with other names?
- In Angola, Selvaraj is the 768th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/selvarajThe 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, “Selvaraj” — the 768th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.