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The SEALE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,567 5709 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 778 6727 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +4789 +1018 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 234 6534 0.001 14
United Kingdom 840 6037 0.002 18
Top States for SEALE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,350 1733 0.006 65
Alabama 594 1188 0.013 134
California 360 7283 0.001 11
Florida 273 6852 0.002 17
Mississippi 246 1593 0.009 86
Top States for SEALE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 594 1188 0.013 134
Mississippi 246 1593 0.009 86
Texas 1,350 1733 0.006 65
Louisiana 222 2549 0.005 50
Arkansas 113 2923 0.004 42

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SEALE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SEALE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SEALE in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SEALE by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SEALE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SEALE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SEALE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SEALE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 462 8.3
White (Hispanic) 106 1.9
Mixed Race 73 1.31
Native American/Alaskan 36 0.65
Asian/Pacific 29 0.52
White (Caucasian) 4,861 87.32

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SEALE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SEALE in historical publications

SEALE. SEAL. A parish iu Kent, another in Surrey, a third in Sussex (Beeding), and a fourth in co. Leicester. Many other places were anciently so designated, from A- Sax. sel, a seat, hall, manorhouse, mansion.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SEALE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SEALE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SEALE

The following words are slight variants of SEALE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.