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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : habitational name from any of several places so named, for example on the island of Rügen.
  • Swedish : ornamental name, perhaps from a place-name element sel- ‘stretch of smooth water’ + the Swedish adjectival suffix -in, based on Latin -inius.

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