Selest Surname
Approximately 93 people bear this surname
Selest Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moldova | 58 | 1:61,403 | 8,510 |
| Russia | 8 | 1:18,015,382 | 436,635 |
| Slovakia | 7 | 1:762,350 | 73,078 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Lithuania | 2 | 1:1,517,294 | 35,813 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
The alternate forms: Šelest (23) & Şelest (3) are calculated separately.
Selest (84) may also be a first name.
Selest Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Selest Come From? nationality or country of origin
Selest occurs more in Moldova more than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms: Šelest or Şelest. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Selest? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,931,261st most numerous last name on earth, held by approximately 1 in 78,360,709 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 92 percent of Selest live; 80 percent live in Eastern Europe and 63 percent live in Romanian Europe. Selest is also the 1,046,220th most frequently occurring given name throughout the world, borne by 84 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Moldova, where it is borne by 58 people, or 1 in 61,403. In Moldova Selest is most numerous in: Căușeni District, where 53 percent are found, Chișinău Municipality, where 24 percent are found and Ștefan Vodă District, where 12 percent are found. Barring Moldova this surname occurs in 13 countries. It also occurs in Russia, where 9 percent are found and Slovakia, where 8 percent are found.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Selest
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