Seal is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Seal
No. of characters: 4
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Seal

How popular is Seal?

Seal is common in United States.

Seal is ranked 10865 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Seal bearers increased by 3.973214 per cent in 2010 US census to 9316 since 2000, the surname slipped by 152 spots and ranked at 3797. The last name was found in around 32 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 91.04 92.91
Black 2.25 2.47
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 2.08 1.03
Hispanic or Latino 2.07 1.61
Others 1.67 1.15
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.88 0.84
Seal is quite popular family name mostly used in India while Jersey is ahead in terms of density. Around 49394 people have been found who wears Seal as their family name. Seal is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
440,449 Indonesia10
23,739 Nigeria5
101,066 Zimbabwe5
90,215 Germany3
2,113 Taiwan3
20,541 Peru3
35,184 Poland3
9,500 Ghana3
3,224 Afghanistan3
6,270 Hong Kong3
32,086 Mexico3
4,231 Jamaica2
18,035 Egypt2
54,135 Philippines2
18,625 Japan2
91,784 Netherlands2
34,581 Chile1
24,771 Colombia1
19,810 Croatia1
746 Dominica1
101,414 Kyrgyzstan1
2,190 Barbados1
2,211 Brunei1
123,175 Tanzania1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
91,024 Belgium1
165,773 Belarus1
174,544 Czech Republic1
6,820 Angola1
28,746 Algeria1
15,162 Costa Rica1
11,486 Estonia1
48,575 Azerbaijan1
36,814 Romania1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
17,768 Pakistan1
7,895 South Korea1
5,589 Sudan1
2,057 Myanmar1
6,688 Malawi1
2,935 Madagascar1
2,613 The Bahamas1
53,505 Turkey1
14,373 Jordan1
7,292 Vietnam1
1,818 Guernsey1
7,941 Guatemala1
25,746 Finland1
24,460 Armenia1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
3,642 Northern Ireland48
9,524 Portugal37
9,620 Singapore30
59,636 Spain29
36,547 Switzerland27
23,443 Norway26
144,672 Ukraine24
3,873 Thailand24
42,407 Sweden22
1,163 Jersey17
14,048 Ireland16
3,114 China14
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
14,658 Israel71
155,919 Russia64
15,508 United Arab Emirates61
Countries with hundreds of Seal:
3,561 Australia860
8,514 Canada476
17,476 South Africa347
13,426 Kenya314
42,856 Brazil254
25,062 Argentina209
2,076 Wales192
4,101 New Zealand187
11,447 Malaysia152
4,429 Scotland131
3,641 Oman124
56,111 Italy123
84,907 France110
Countries with thousands of Seal:
2,044 England3,893
2,870 Bangladesh3,094
Countries with ten thousands of Seal:
2,036 India27,915
3,836 United States10,416
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

During the great famine, Ellen Seal was born at sea on Hannah Kerr put out from Belfast whose parents were originally from Ireland and migrated to USA on May 5, 1849. John Seal (22) Immigrant, 35 years old Michael Seal, John Seal, aged 20, Peter Seal (20) Immigrant, 22 years old Richard Seal, Workman M. Seal, 25 years old E. Seal, H. Seal, and 3 other Seal mainly workman migrated to US from Belfast, Liverpool and London.

Seal Namesakes

  • Aditya Seal, Film actor
  • Douglas Seale, Film actor
  • Hubert Alonza 'Nicky' Sealy, Sheila-Sealy-Smith's husband
  • Amber Sealey, Actress
  • Anil Seal, Author
  • Dan Seals, Musician
  • Arna Seal, Author
  • Arthenia Sealy-James, Sam Sealy's mother
  • Artie Seale, Bobby Seale's wife
  • Bobby Seale, Activist

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