Given name & surname · also Serbo-Croatian

Seles

Seles is a surname from Serbo-Croatian, ultimately from Hungarian.

Original HungarianSzéles

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Seles comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Hungarian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Serbo-Croatian Seleš/Ceлeш, from Hungarian Széles.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Seles’s family of names

In English usage, Seles as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Serbo-Croatian form Ceлeш. In English usage, Seles as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Serbo-Croatian form Seleš. In English usage, Seles as a surname has a related form in Seleš.

Walk Seles’s family in the name graph

SelesΣέλεςSelessZelesSellesSzelesSelešSzélesCeлeш

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Seles has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Hungarian roots to each of them.

EnglishSerbo-CroatianHungarian

Hungarianwhere Seles comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Seles, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Hungarian

Semeš

“eye doctor”

No U.S. birth series

—

Hungarian

Segeš

“poor”

No U.S. birth series

—

Hungarian

Seleși

Seleși is a surname from Hungarian. It is used in Romanian.

No U.S. birth series

—

Hungarian

Seder

“cranberry”

No U.S. birth series

—

Hungarian

Telkes

Telkes is a surname from Hungarian. It is used in English, German, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian.

No U.S. birth series

—

Hungarian

Remeș

“terrible, awful”

No U.S. birth series

—

Hungarian

Vereș

“red”

No U.S. birth series

—

Hungarian

Deneș

Deneș is a surname from Hungarian. It is used in Romanian.

No U.S. birth series

—

Sibling ideas

Names that share Seles’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Seles

A sister for Seles