Sailors
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/seɪləz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sailors is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 41Kas Seiler(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 62Kas Seiler
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.9Kas Seiler
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 Sailors itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
8,170 named Seiler, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Seiler
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Seiler in US United States, CH Switzerland, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sailors 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 | — | 8,170as Seiler | 1 in 41K | 8.2K | Seiler | 334 |
| CH Switzerland | #623 | 4,322as Seiler | 1 in 1.9K | 4.3K | Seiler | 60 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 210 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 402 | Seiler | 52 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Seiler | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 129as Seiler | 1 in 26K | 129 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Seiler | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 23 | — | 5 |
| BZ Belize | #277 | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Seiler | 1 |
8,170 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ken Sailorsb. 1921USAmerican basketball player (1921-2016)
- Timothy B. SailorsUShistorian of religion, classical philologist, and orientalist
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #17,911 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,092 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sailors?
- A machine transcription gives /seɪləz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sailors have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.2 thousand people named Seiler, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sailors most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sailors itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people named Seiler.
- How common is the name Sailors?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,170 people named Seiler in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Sailors compared with other names?
- In Belize, Sailors is the 277th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sailors?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sailorsThe 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, “Sailors” — the 277th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.