# Seals (surname)

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

A Cornish habitational surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 15,858 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,299 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 19,469 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.6% (15,020 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Seal, Seale, Seel |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Seals 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) | 53% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 41% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.3% |
| Two or more races | 2.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Seals in the United States.

## People named Seals

- Son Seals, American electric blues guitarist and singer (1942–2004)
- Brian Kennedy, American musician, songwriter and record producer

## Similar surnames

Salas, Sales, Sells, Sauls, Sayles, Seales, Salais, Salls, Sallis, Salles, Scales, Swails.

## 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.