How common is the surname Siegel?

21,536 people in the United States had the surname Siegel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,336 Americans. It ranked 1,674th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Siegel?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Siegel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Siegel getting more or less common?

Less common. 21,725 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,536 in 2010, down 0.9%.

The surname Siegel

A German surname, carried by 21,536 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). Siegel is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German.

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 21,536 people named Siegel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,336 Americans. That is down 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,725.

#1,674

rank among US surnames

21,536

people in 2010

7.3

per 100,000 Americans

-0.9%

change since 2000 (was #1,514)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,665	Beaver	21,640	14,267
#1,667	Kilgore	21,627	14,276
#1,668	McGraw	21,614	14,285
#1,669	Dahl	21,598	14,295
#1,670	Diamond	21,586	14,303
#1,671	Pimentel	21,579	14,308
#1,672	Cornell	21,558	14,322

Who is named Siegel

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

96% of people named Siegel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Siegel

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

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Siegel come from?: Siegel is German in origin.
How common is the surname Siegel?: 21,536 people in the United States had the surname Siegel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,336 Americans. It ranked 1,674th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Siegel?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Siegel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Siegel getting more or less common?: Less common. 21,725 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,536 in 2010, down 0.9%.