How common is the surname Seagraves?

3,340 people in the United States had the surname Seagraves in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,439 Americans. It ranked 9,712th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Seagraves getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,351 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,340 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Seagraves

A surname, carried by 3,340 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S261

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Seagraves is more common than 94% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,340 people named Seagraves in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 92,439 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,351.

#9,712

rank among US surnames

3,340

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #8,973)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,708	Culler	3,343	92,356
#9,709	Mahmoud	3,342	92,383
#9,710	Gigliotti	3,341	92,411
#9,712	Hallam	3,340	92,439
#9,716	Haskin	3,339	92,466
#9,720	Mandell	3,337	92,522

Who is named Seagraves

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

88% of people named Seagraves identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Black (not Hispanic) 7.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Seagroves

Surnames that sound like Seagraves

Seagraves has the Soundex code S261, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S261.

Questions

How common is the surname Seagraves?: 3,340 people in the United States had the surname Seagraves in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,439 Americans. It ranked 9,712th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Seagraves?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Seagraves identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Seagraves getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,351 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,340 in 2010, down 0.3%.
What are other spellings of Seagraves?: Seagroves.