as a Last Name
- 10,459
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Sell
Meaning & Origins
English: from Middle English selle, a rough hut of the type normally occupied by animals, hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a hut like this. In many cases the name may have been in effect a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman.
| 2,969th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,459
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wisconsin
- has the most people named Sell per capita
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