# Seagrave (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/seagrave/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 630 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,671 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 490,072 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.7% (585 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Sygrove |

## Etymology

From Old English ġeset (“fold, pen”) or sēaþ (“pit, hole; well”) + grāf (“grove”) or græf (“trench, ditch”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Seagrave in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Seagrave in the United States.

## People named Seagrave

- Jocelyn Seagrave, American actress

## Similar surnames

Seagraves, Segraves.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.