Sella is used as a family name or surname in Israel. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Sella
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Israel
Meaning: By 1900, it is in the Essonne and Isère that the name was the most widespread in France. It can be from Spain (Alternative: Sellas), but in Italy it is the most widespread, especially in Veneto. It is a place name, name of various localities, which seems to evoke more often a river, a valley.

How popular is Sella?

Sella is common in Israel.

Sella is ranked 33758 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Sella bearers increased by 5.416667 per cent in 2010 US census to 506 since 2000, the surname slipped by 261 spots and ranked at 42790. The last name was found in around 2 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 85.77 90.42
Hispanic or Latino 9.29 6.25
Black 2.17 1.04
Sella is quite popular family name mostly used in Italy while Israel is ahead in terms of density. Around 14759 people have been found who wears Sella as their family name. Sella is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
14,054 China3
20,837 Venezuela2
33,202 Saudi Arabia2
91,784 Netherlands2
28,232 Morocco2
14,408 Uruguay2
40,256 Mexico2
5,726 Puerto Rico2
26,532 Chile2
118,441 Germany2
19,046 Ireland2
18,625 Japan2
24,176 Qatar1
25,721 Egypt1
746 Dominica1
15,705 Cameroon1
31,584 Peru1
49,101 Denmark1
2,057 Myanmar1
8,181 Botswana1
91,024 Belgium1
37,493 Austria1
25,746 Finland1
16,283 Lithuania1
36,814 Romania1
12,270 Lebanon1
14,373 Jordan1
24,421 Slovakia1
6,688 Malawi1
9,926 Ivory Coast1
8,371 Syria1
14,644 Tunisia1
47,891 Norway1
16,640 Hong Kong1
62,864 New Zealand1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
8,214 Singapore35
4,169 Cyprus26
37,982 United Arab Emirates23
14,528 Mauritania13
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
41,845 England97
26,972 Australia87
12,039 Colombia70
36,559 Spain62
56,416 Canada53
Countries with hundreds of Sella:
12,536 Indonesia981
39,434 United States708
7,604 Argentina702
7,221 Tanzania681
25,985 France380
71,015 India363
15,335 Algeria357
5,855 Sri Lanka326
13,426 Kenya314
2,130 Dominican Republic288
7,646 Greece246
24,304 South Africa237
9,201 Malaysia202
10,773 Switzerland108
Countries with thousands of Sella:
2,631 Italy3,684
4,924 Brazil2,830
557 Israel1,838
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Immigrants to US

From Italy

Alberto Sella worked as pitman and hailed from Italy. 16 years old embarked for California from Havre on La Bourgogne and arrived on October 10, 1887. Alfonzo Sella (16) Farmer, Angelina Sella, Angelo Sella, aged 52, Antonio Sella, aged 20, Miner Antonio Sella, Antonio Sella, aged 36, 44 years old Antonio Sella, Farmer Arturo Sella, and 60 other Sella majority of whom were laborer and others worked as journeyman and miner, housekeeper, dressmaker, weaver migrated to US.

Comments

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Trudie Hogle
 The origin of the name is Basque etymology of the name comes from the word meaning zelhai: tea / field / plain this surname specifies the location of the ancestral home.
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avenue17 19th December 2023 , 6:25 PM
It has touched it! It has reached it!

Sella Namesakes

  • Abdelmalek Sellal, Prime Minister of Algeria
  • Abdelmajid Sellamna, Film director
  • Abdelmalek Sellal, Prime Minister of Algeria
  • Abdelmalek Sellal, Prime Minister of Algeria
  • Alia Sellami, Film Score Composer
  • George Sellar, Armed force officer
  • Vittorio Sella, Photographer
  • Wilfrid Sellars, Philosopher
  • Bev Sellars, Writer
  • Bhavani Sellathurai, Actress

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