Selvas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/selβas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Selvas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 637K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 641K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 724K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 637K (inferred from the name graph)
78 people
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
남아메리카의 아마존 강 유역에 있는 열대 밀림 지역.
Sources 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Selvas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 78 | 1 in 641K | 78 | Selvas | 37 |
| US United States | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | listed | Selvas | 45 |
| AR Argentina | 33 | 1 in 1.4M | 33 | Selvas | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 28 | 1 in 7.6M | 28 | Selvas | 15 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 724K | — | Selvas | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | Selvas | 2 |
| HN Honduras | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Selvas | 2 |
78 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- David Selvasb. 1971ESactor
- Paola Selvasb. 1999MXMexican association football 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)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 78 | #32,711 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 78 | #32,674 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 33 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #156,028 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 8 | #6,279 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Selvas?
- A machine transcription gives /selβas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Selvas have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 78 people named Selvas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled selvas.
- Where is Selvas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Selvas is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 637 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Selvas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 78 people named Selvas, about 1 in 641 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/selvasThe 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, “Selvas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.