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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : possibly a habitational name from a place so called in Westphalia.
  • Swedish (Sellén) : ornamental name probably formed with the place name element sel ‘stretch of smooth water’ + the common surname suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius.

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