The Selmani surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 310 people carried this name — #64,200 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted. That is up 118% from 142 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Selmani surname
Borrowed from Arabic سلمان and derived from Albanian Selmani.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Selmani» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
2,055 people named Selmani live in Switzerland.
They live in 22 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 197 people named Selmani live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 61 people named Selmani.
Most of them — 36 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Essonne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
343 people named Selmani are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Selmani,
with a public archive behind them.
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Myzejene Selmani 1901– · politician -
Mulla Salih Selmani 1872–
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Asllan Selmani 1945–2011 · writer
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Namik Selmani 1950– · writer
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Ramiz Selmani 1960– · military officer
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Ahmet Selmani 1965– · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Selmani.
- Seller 503 · U.S. census
- Selles 285 · U.S. census
- Sellier 255 · U.S. census
- Sellin 433 · U.S. census
- Sellon 366 · U.S. census
- Selly 125 · U.S. census
- Selmi 135 · U.S. census
- Seltz 368 · U.S. census
- Seltzer 4,213 · U.S. census
- Selva 984 · U.S. census
- Selves 144 · U.S. census
- Selzer 1,743 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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