Šelest Surname
Approximately 23 people bear this surname
Šelest Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slovakia | 17 | 1:313,909 | 44,635 |
| Lithuania | 5 | 1:606,918 | 21,375 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
The alternate forms: Selest (93) & Şelest (3) are calculated separately.
Šelest Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Šelest Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Šelest is carried by more people in Slovakia than any other country or territory. It may also be rendered as: Selest or Şelest. Click here for other possible spellings of Šelest.
How Common Is The Last Name Šelest? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,116,508th most frequently occurring surname on a global scale, held by around 1 in 316,849,822 people. This surname is mostly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Šelest reside; 74 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 74 percent reside in West Slavic Europe.
Šelest is most commonly used in Slovakia, where it is borne by 17 people, or 1 in 313,909. In Slovakia it is primarily concentrated in: Banská Bystrica Region, where 100 percent live. Without taking into account Slovakia it exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Lithuania, where 22 percent live and Serbia, where 4 percent live.
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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 Šelest
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