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Selman - Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Selman

[ 2 syll. sel-man, se-lm-an ] The boy name Selman is pronounced as SEHLMahN †. Selman is primarily used in the Yiddish language and it is of Hebrew origin. Selman is a variant form of the English, Hebrew, Romanian, and Slavic name Solomon.

Selman is a rarely used baby name for boys. It is not ranked within the top 1000 names. In 2008, among the group of boy names directly linked to Selman, Solomon was the most commonly used.

Baby names that sound like Selman include the Arabic Saalim, the name Salam, the French Salaun, the Arabic and English Saleem, the Slavic Salem, the Arabic and English Salim, the name Salmen, the Arabic, Turkish, and English Selim, the Spanish Selmo, the English Selwin, the English Selwyn, the English Shallon, the English and Hebrew Shalom, the Yiddish Shelomoh, the Hebrew and Yiddish Shlomo, the English and Hebrew Sholom, the Irish and Scottish Solamh, the name Solmon, the English Solom, and the Arabic and Urdu Sulema.

 



† English pronunciation for Selman: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


 
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