The surname Seery
An Irish patronymic surname, carried by 1,382 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S600
Origin
Irish origin
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Saoraidhe (“descendant of Saoraidhe”), a personal name based on saoraidhe (“freeman”).
Seery is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,382 people named Seery in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,405 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,337.
Who is named Seery
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Seery identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
- Two or more races 1.2%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Seery has the Soundex code S600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S600.
Other Irish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Seery come from?
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Saoraidhe (“descendant of Saoraidhe”), a personal name based on saoraidhe (“freeman”).
- How common is the surname Seery?
- 1,382 people in the United States had the surname Seery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,405 Americans. It ranked 19,538th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Seery?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Seery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Seery?
- Seery is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Seery getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,337 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,382 in 2010, up 3.4%.