Seli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Abbreviation of selenoprotein I
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Seli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 162K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 55K
- ALAlbania1 in 146K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
1,309 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Abbreviation of selenoprotein I.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seli 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,309 | 1 in 162K | 1.8K | Seli | 40 |
| DE Germany | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 214K | 1 | Seli | 29 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 419K | — | Seli | 4 |
| GH Ghana | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Seli | 13 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Seli | 18 |
| AT Austria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Seli | 13 |
| AL Albania | 21 | 1 in 146K | 13 | — | — |
1,309 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Seli is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dgc, young banana sprout (still small enough to be transplanted); dig out a banana sprout and transplant it
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Czech, animate masculine plural past active participle of sít
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, cell (basic unit of an organism)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, headquarters, seat, base
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sas, young, new branchlet
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Neinar Selib. 1959EEEstonian politician, entrepreneur, athletics competitor and sportsperson (born 1959)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.8K | #6,256 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.7K | #3,073 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #6,903 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 926 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 503 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 423 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 303 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 232 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Seli mean, and where does it come from?
- Abbreviation of selenoprotein I. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Seli?
- A machine transcription gives /səli/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Seli a male or female name?
- Seli is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Seli have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Seli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seli.
- How common is the name Seli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,309 people named Seli in 2022, about 1 in 162 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Seli?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Seli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.