Selle Family History
Selle Name Meaning
English: variant of Sell 1.German: from Middle High
German, Middle Low German selle ‘friend’, ‘companion’.French: habitational name from any of the various places called
Selle, Selles, or La Selle, named with Latin cella ‘cell’,
‘cot’, ‘hut’, ‘stall’.Dutch (Van Selle):
habitational name for someone from Zelle in Herenthout, Antwerp.
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Name Distribution of Selle Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Selle families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Selle families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Selle census records
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Selle Family Origin
Selle Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Selle
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Selle Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Selle census records
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Selle Civil War Service Records
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