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selan Name Meaning and History

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the selan family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of selan Families in the US in 1920
Number of selan families
 5-8
 2-4		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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