How common is the surname Segal?

7,972 people in the United States had the surname Segal in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 38,729 Americans. It ranked 4,451st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Segal?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Segal identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Segal getting more or less common?

More common. 7,611 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,972 in 2010, up 4.7%.

The surname Segal

A Hebrew surname, carried by 7,972 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S240

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Segal is more common than 97.3% of them.

Origin

Hebrew origin

Borrowed from Hebrew סגל (Segel).

One of 51 Hebrew surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,972 people named Segal in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 38,729 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,611.

#4,451

rank among US surnames

7,972

people in 2010

2.7

per 100,000 Americans

+4.7%

change since 2000 (was #4,316)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,442	Weed	7,987	38,656
#4,444	Vaca	7,982	38,680
#4,445	Magnuson	7,980	38,690
#4,446	Keyser	7,978	38,700
#4,447	Allman	7,977	38,704
#4,448	Durkin	7,975	38,714
#4,449	Alvarenga	7,973	38,724

Who is named Segal

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

92% of people named Segal identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
Two or more races 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Segel
Sigal

Surnames that sound like Segal

Segal has the Soundex code S240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S240.

Other Hebrew surnames

All 51 Hebrew surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Segal come from?: Borrowed from Hebrew סגל (Segel).
How common is the surname Segal?: 7,972 people in the United States had the surname Segal in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 38,729 Americans. It ranked 4,451st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Segal?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Segal identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Segal getting more or less common?: More common. 7,611 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,972 in 2010, up 4.7%.
What are other spellings of Segal?: Segel and Sigal.