Selig

German

"blessed, happy in life"

Selig Origin and Meaning

The name Selig is a boy's name of German origin meaning "blessed, happy in life".

Selig comes from the Yiddish vocabulary word meaning 'happy, fortunate, blessed.' Most of us are more familiar with its Woody Allen variation, Zelig.

Famous People Named Selig

• Selig Brodetsky Russian,English mathematician
• Edward Selig Salomon German,American U.S. Civil War general
• Selig Starr (born Zelig Starobinski) Polish,American Talmudic scholar and rabbi
• Bud Selig commissioner of Major League Baseball
• Kyle Selig actor who plays Aaron Samuels in the "Mean Girls" musical