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    The surname Seale

    A surname, carried by 5,846 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S400

    Seale: #5,905 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Seale #5,905, 5,846 people Seale: #5,905 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Seale #5,905, 5,846 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Seale is more common than 96.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 5,846 people named Seale in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 52,813 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,567.

    #5,905
    rank among US surnames
    5,846
    people in 2010
    2.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #5,709)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,900Kibler5,84952,786
    #5,901Grimsley5,84852,795
    #5,903Gudino5,84752,804
    #5,905Seale5,84652,813
    #5,906Stackhouse5,84452,831

    Who is named Seale

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

    85% of people named Seale identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Seales

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • John Seale
      Australian cinematographer, born 1942
    • Douglas Seale
      British actor (1913–1999)

    Notable Seales come mostly from Australia (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Seale

    Seale has the Soundex code S400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Seale?
    5,846 people in the United States had the surname Seale in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 52,813 Americans. It ranked 5,905th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Seale?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Seale identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Seale?
    John Seale, Australian cinematographer, followed by Douglas Seale.
    Where is the surname Seale most common?
    Wikidata records people named Seale in Australia and the United Kingdom.
    Is the surname Seale getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,567 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,846 in 2010, up 5.0%.