Seigel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: s. SIEG Kf. (Seigen): obd (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Seigel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 51st most common surname. Seigel is also written סגל in Hebrew.
- ILIsrael1 in 795as סגל(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 15Kas Siegel
- CHSwitzerland1 in 43Kas Sigel
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Seigel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 795 (inferred from the name graph)
21,536 named Siegel, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, as סגל
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Seigel in other scripts: Hebrew and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled סגל in US United States, PL Poland, AR Argentina, סיגל in IL Israel, Siegel in CH Switzerland and זיגל in NO Norway.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)s. SIEG Kf. (Seigen): obd. "tiefe, feuchte Stelle" (zu "ver- siegen"). Seig|n(er), e- wasser( enbusch. Audi Seich(e)? Vgl. Sieger und Siek
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Seigel is found
(measured from records)Seigel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 21,536as Siegel | 1 in 15K | 22K | סגל | 111 |
| IL Israel | #51 | 10,919as סגל | 1 in 795 | 11K | סיגל | 84 |
| AR Argentina | — | 415as Sigal | 1 in 110K | 415 | סגל | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 364as Siegel | 1 in 582K | 364 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 208as Siegel | 1 in 184K | 108 | סגל | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 195as Sigel | 1 in 43K | 195 | Siegel | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 148as Siegel | 1 in 72K | 148 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 92as Siegel | 1 in 59K | 92 | זיגל | 1 |
21,536 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling siegel. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Seigel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, cross-reference; see SIEG, short form
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In gsw, rung of a ladder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Judy Seigelb. 1930USAmerican artist, photographer, and activist (1930-2017)
- Jerrold Seigelb. 1936USAmerican historian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Seigel mean?
- Recorded meaning: s. SIEG Kf. (Seigen): obd.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Seigel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Siegel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Israel, Argentina, Brazil and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Seigel most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Seigel itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 795 people named סגל.
- How common is the name Seigel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,536 people named Siegel in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Seigel compared with other names?
- In Israel, Seigel is the 51st most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seigelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Seigel” — ranked 1514th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.