Selzer Surname Guide

In Wikidata, Selzer is listed as a German surname. The 2010 census count for Selzer in the United States was 1,743, good for rank 16,481. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames. French birth records list 232 children named Selzer between 1891 and 2000. Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Selzer, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

Here is a quick, sourced look at the Selzer surname.

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Selzer coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line. Research your Selzer family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.