# Sealy (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,564 |
| US rank (2010) | 9,155 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 86,629 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.6% (3,439 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sealy 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) | 52% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 40% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sealy in the United States, Belize, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom.

## People named Sealy

- Malik Sealy, American basketball player (1970–2000)
- Katy Sealy, Belizean athletics competitor
- Joseph Robert Sealy, British botanist (1907-2000)
- Stella Ross-Craig, British botanist, botanical collector and botanical illustrator (1906-2006)

## Similar surnames

Seeley, Sell, Seal, Seale, Seely, Salley, Sealey, Sally, Seel, Selley, Shelly, Shealy.

## 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.