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    The surname Seek

    A German surname, carried by 677 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S200

    Seek: #33,645 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Seek #33,645, 677 people Seek: #33,645 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Seek #33,645, 677 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Seek is more common than 79.3% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    * As a North/Low German surname, from Seek, variant of Seeck, shortened from compound names containing the element Sieg (“victory”) (as in Siegfried) or siech (“ill”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 薛 (xuē), see Xue.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 677 people named Seek in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 456,050 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 641.

    #33,645
    rank among US surnames
    677
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #33,563)

    Who is named Seek

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

    89% of people named Seek identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as two or more races and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Two or more races 4.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Seek

    Seek has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Seek come from?
    * As a North/Low German surname, from Seek, variant of Seeck, shortened from compound names containing the element Sieg (“victory”) (as in Siegfried) or siech (“ill”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 薛 (xuē), see Xue.
    How common is the surname Seek?
    677 people in the United States had the surname Seek in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 456,050 Americans. It ranked 33,645th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Seek?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Seek identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Seek getting more or less common?
    More common. 641 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 677 in 2010, up 5.6%.