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    The surname Seals

    A place surname, carried by 15,858 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S420

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Seals is more common than 98.6% of them.

    Origin

    A Cornish habitational surname.

    Seals is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 15,858 people named Seals in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 19,469 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,020.

    #2,299
    rank among US surnames
    15,858
    people in 2010
    5.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #2,222)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,290Ibrahim15,91519,400
    #2,291Dietrich15,90419,413
    #2,292Bruner15,89819,420
    #2,293Valdivia15,89519,424
    #2,294Jernigan15,88919,431
    #2,295Schwarz15,88419,438
    #2,296Gale15,86619,460

    Who is named Seals

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

    53% of people named Seals identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 53%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 41%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Sealss

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Son Seals
      American electric blues guitarist and singer (1942–2004)
    • Brian Kennedy
      American musician, songwriter and record producer, born 1983

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Seals

    Seals has the Soundex code S420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Seals?
    15,858 people in the United States had the surname Seals in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 19,469 Americans. It ranked 2,299th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Seals?
    In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Seals identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Seals?
    Son Seals, American electric blues guitarist and singer (1942–2004), followed by Brian Kennedy.
    Where is the surname Seals most common?
    Wikidata records people named Seals in the United States.
    What type of surname is Seals?
    Seals is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Seals getting more or less common?
    More common. 15,020 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 15,858 in 2010, up 5.6%.
    What are other spellings of Seals?
    Seal, Seale and Seel.