Seley Surname
Approximately 861 people bear this surname
Seley Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 654 | 1:554,219 | 45,765 |
| Liberia | 95 | 1:46,406 | 4,181 |
| Ivory Coast | 31 | 1:744,233 | 20,430 |
| Indonesia | 16 | 1:8,265,575 | 327,276 |
| Argentina | 14 | 1:3,053,101 | 127,728 |
| Niger | 12 | 1:1,599,335 | 32,126 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| Tanzania | 4 | 1:13,235,403 | 84,310 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Eritrea | 4 | 1:1,187,975 | 480 |
| Kazakhstan | 4 | 1:4,420,624 | 134,293 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 20 | 1:1,218,768 | 44,985 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 205 | 1:244,969 | 20,381 |
The alternate forms: Séley (20) are calculated separately.
Seley (118) may also be a first name.
Seley Demographics
Seley Political Affiliation
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Seley Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Seley Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Seley (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺳﻠﻲ, Russian: Селей, Tibetan: སེ་ལེགས།) is more frequently found in The United States than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Séley. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Seley? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 406,613th most widely held last name globally, borne by around 1 in 8,464,049 people. It is mostly found in The Americas, where 75 percent of Seley live; 74 percent live in North America and 74 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 859,937th most frequently used first name in the world, borne by 118 people.
This surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 654 people, or 1 in 554,219. In The United States it is most frequent in: California, where 16 percent are found, Iowa, where 9 percent are found and Florida, where 9 percent are found. Excluding The United States Seley occurs in 23 countries. It also occurs in Liberia, where 11 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent are found.
Seley Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Seley has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Seley last name increased 319 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it contracted 95 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Seley Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Seley are 39.31% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 92.54% being registered to vote for the political party.
Seley earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 2.47% less than the national average, earning $42,084 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Seley Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Seley in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺳﻠﻲ | sly | - |
| Seley in the Tibetan language | ||
| སེ་ལེགས། | sélek | - |
| Seley in the Russian language | ||
| Селей | selej | - |
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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
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- 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 Seley
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