How common is the surname Seigel?

1,288 people in the United States had the surname Seigel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,709 Americans. It ranked 20,574th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Seigel?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Seigel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Seigel getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,351 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,288 in 2010, down 4.7%.

The surname Seigel

A surname, carried by 1,288 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). Seigel is more common than 87.3% of them.

Origin

South German surname, variant of Siegel.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,288 people named Seigel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 239,709 Americans. That is down 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,351.

#20,574

rank among US surnames

1,288

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-4.7%

change since 2000 (was #18,765)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#20,565	Elmi	1,289	239,523
#20,574	Follmer	1,288	239,709

Who is named Seigel

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

92% of people named Seigel identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Seigel

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

Questions

Where does the surname Seigel come from?: South German surname, variant of Siegel.
How common is the surname Seigel?: 1,288 people in the United States had the surname Seigel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,709 Americans. It ranked 20,574th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Seigel?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Seigel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Seigel getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,351 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,288 in 2010, down 4.7%.