# Selden (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/selden/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,348 |
| US rank (2010) | 19,911 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 229,040 people |
| Change since 2000 | -28.6% (1,889 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Selden in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 83% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 11% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Selden in the United States.

## People named Selden

- Wayne Selden, Jr., American basketball player (born 1994)
- George B. Selden, American patent lawyer and inventor of a version of the automobile (1846–1922)

## Similar surnames

Seldon, Slayden, Sheldon, Shelden, Shelton, Saldana, Skelton, Slayton, Slaton, Sultana, Sultan, Scholten.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.