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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Slovenian : habitational name for a person from any of the many places in Slovenia called Sela, Sele or Selo, named with the archaic Slovenian word selo ‘hamlet’, ‘village’ (plural sela, sele), or an archaic nickname for a villager (of the same origin). Compare Selak.

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