# Sewall (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sewall/  
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) | 1,078 |
| US rank (2010) | 23,555 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 286,406 people |
| Change since 2000 | -6.3% (1,150 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sewall 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) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sewall in the United States.

## People named Sewall

- May Wright Sewall, American suffragist (1844-1920)
- Arthur Sewall, American politician (1835–1900)
- Sumner Sewall, American politician, 58th Governor of Maine (1897–1965)

## Similar surnames

Sewell, Sowell, Swallow, Seawell, Shell, Sell, Seal, Seale, Sale, Sealy, Sealey, Sall.

## 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.