Seldon Surname

112,077th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,137 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Seldon Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Selden.' I cannot find the spot.

Ansell de Seleden, Warwickshire and Leicestershire, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

1600.

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Seldon Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2,0041:180,86818,073
England6751:82,5459,109
Bhutan6291:979111
Wales2471:12,5281,389
Australia1661:162,62516,859
Canada1481:248,95723,668
South Africa811:668,86148,796
Haiti781:136,9735,994
India171:45,121,493474,784
Russia121:12,010,255361,204
Philippines111:9,203,475207,772
Malaysia91:3,277,136121,952
New Zealand81:566,04034,598
Thailand71:10,091,192512,203
Scotland31:1,784,60641,943
Hong Kong31:2,445,1619,595
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Bolivia11:10,616,43417,077
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
American Samoa11:55,7583,072
Afghanistan11:32,153,18360,828
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Papua New Guinea11:8,153,717181,784
Panama11:3,912,25817,195
Nepal11:28,480,95622,413
Malta11:430,2723,380
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
Honduras11:8,816,4429,272
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
France11:66,422,722504,397
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England5071:48,0785,926
Wales311:50,5942,584
Jersey11:51,8823,898
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3551:141,46113,305

Seldon (1,341) may also be a first name.

Seldon Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Selden.' I cannot find the spot.

Ansell de Seleden, Warwickshire and Leicestershire, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

1600. John Selden. Sussex: Register of the University of Oxford.

1789. Married — Daniel Selden and Mary Gray: St. George, Hanover Square.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) Dweller at 1 the Willow-Valley [Old English s(e)alh( = Old Norse selia), a willow + denu, a valley] 2 the Hall-Valley [Old English sele, a hall] A Salden, Yorks, and a Salden, Bucks, occur in the Charter-Rolls temp. Hen. VI; and one Ansell de Seleden is mentioned in the Testa de Nevill, 13th cent.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

As a Cornish name, from sel-don, prospect hill.

Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock

The Seldons are still at home in the Barnstaple district. The mayors of that town in 1664 and 1692 bore this name (G.).

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

Seldon Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Seldon Come From? nationality or country of origin

Seldon (Marathi: सेलड़ॉन, Russian: Селдон, Tibetan: གསལ་སྒྲོན།) is carried by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Seldon? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 112,077th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 1,761,553 people. The surname is mostly found in The Americas, where 54 percent of Seldon are found; 52 percent are found in North America and 52 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Seldon is also the 214,466th most prevalent first name world-wide It is held by 1,341 people.

This last name is most prevalent in The United States, where it is borne by 2,004 people, or 1 in 180,868. In The United States Seldon is primarily concentrated in: Maryland, where 15 percent are found, Georgia, where 12 percent are found and Virginia, where 8 percent are found. Outside of The United States it occurs in 48 countries. It also occurs in England, where 16 percent are found and Bhutan, where 15 percent are found.

Seldon Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Seldon has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname rose 565 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 133 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Wales it rose 797 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Seldon Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Seldon last name are 38.3% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 91.53% being registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Seldon earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 26.6% less than the national average, earning R 174,432 per year; in United States they earn 10.83% less than the national average, earning $38,476 USD per year and in Canada they earn 14.99% more than the national average, earning $57,129 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Sheldon9241,731/
Sehldon922/
Selldon922/
Sheldone8680/
Scheldon8612/
Shelldon866/
Sheldonn861/
Geldon83164/
Seldun8365/
Sildon8362/
Zeldon8339/
Seldom8323/
Seldan8323/
Celdon8316/
Söldon832/
Sldotn832/
Syldon831/
Shldon830/
Shelldone801/
Sheldan77989/
Sleddon7748/
Gieldon7733/
Cheldon7723/
Shledon779/
Sjeldan776/
Seldang773/
Shildon772/
Geldoon772/
Celdone771/
Seldane771/
Sheldun770/
Schldon770/
Sldan731/
Cheeldon711/
Schldone711/
Sheldaan711/
Seldhuhn711/
Scildone711/
Cheldonn711/
Geldonne711/
Selldane711/
Schlddon710/
Schledon710/
Gildon67838/
Cledon67122/
Seldam6762/
Sildan6760/
Celdan6738/
Sildom6718/
Geldan6713/
Zeldan6713/
Sldanh672/
Jeldan672/
Sledoń671/
Zildon671/
Zeldón671/
Syldan671/
Sildun671/
Jildon671/
Celdán671/

Seldon Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Seldon in the Tibetan language
གསལ་སྒྲོན།saldrön94.94
གསལ་སྒྲོན་saldrön3.32
གསོལ་སྒྲོན།soldrön0.52
གསལ་སྒྲོནsaldrön0.35
གསལ་སྒྱོན།salgyön0.35
གསེལ་སྒྲོན།seldrön0.35
གསལ་sal0.17
Seldon in the Marathi language
सेलड़ॉनselarona50
शेलडनseladana33.33
डॉनdona16.67
Seldon in the Russian language
Селдонseldon-

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