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    The surname Sellinger

    A German place surname, carried by 526 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S452

    Sellinger: #41,359 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Sellinger #41,359, 526 people Sellinger: #41,359 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Sellinger #41,359, 526 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sellinger is more common than 74.5% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Either a variant of Salinger or borrowed from German Sellinger, a Bavarian habitational surname.

    Sellinger is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 526 people named Sellinger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 586,969 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 529.

    #41,359
    rank among US surnames
    526
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #39,176)

    Who is named Sellinger

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    90% of people named Sellinger identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.1%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sellinger

    Sellinger has the Soundex code S452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S452.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sellinger come from?
    Either a variant of Salinger or borrowed from German Sellinger, a Bavarian habitational surname.
    How common is the surname Sellinger?
    526 people in the United States had the surname Sellinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 586,969 Americans. It ranked 41,359th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sellinger?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Sellinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Sellinger?
    Sellinger is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Sellinger getting more or less common?
    Less common. 529 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 526 in 2010, down 0.6%.