Given name & surname · also Catalan
Selva
Selva is a surname from Catalan, ultimately from Italian. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Selva comes from Catalan, and ultimately from Italian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1934. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Selva through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 54
- 0 boys · 54 girls
- Most popular year
- 1937
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1949. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1937. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 441 as a first name in 2020; 1,146 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Selva’s family of names
In Greek usage, Selva as a surname is a transliteration of Σέλβα.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Selva
- Selva AlmadaArgentinian writerborn 1973
- Selva CasalUruguayan writer1927–2020
- Selva RasalingamBritish film actor (born 1968)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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