Šeliga

surname · Latin script

/ʂeli˨˦ɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Šeliga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Seliga or Slovene Šeliga.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 25K
  • CZCzechia1 in 46K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

1,531 people, 2026

Sources
59 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Seliga in PL Poland, US United States, SK Slovakia.

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)

Borrowed from Polish Seliga or Slovene Šeliga.

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šeliga 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.

Where Šeliga is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—1,5311 in 25K769SeLiga59
US United States—5881 in 566K628SeLiga35
SK Slovakia#9414001 in 14K400SeLiga37
CZ Czechia—2341 in 46K234Šeliga15
HR Croatia—451 in 94K47——

1,531 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling seliga. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Šeliga is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written SeLiga, Шелига

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Guatemala, Argentina, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written SeLiga

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, Swahili, German

    Also written SeLiga

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written SeLiga

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written SeLiga

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalPoštovani Šeliga,Dear Šeliga, (English)
InformalPoštovani Šeliga,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Šeliga
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995400—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—234#7,190
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202147—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202145#14,292

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

What does the name Šeliga mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Polish Seliga or Slovene Šeliga. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Šeliga?
A machine transcription gives /ʂeli˨˦ɡa/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Šeliga have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Šeliga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled SeLiga.
Where is Šeliga most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šeliga is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Šeliga?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,531 people named Šeliga in 2026, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
How common is Šeliga compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Šeliga is the 941st most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Šeliga” — the 941st most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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