Seeler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname für den Seiler
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Seeler is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Berufsname für den Seiler. Bearer counts: 258.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Seeler is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, to seal
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)- Georg Seelerb. 1895DEGerman politician (1895-1959)
- Moriz Seelerb. 1896PLGerman writer (1896–1942)
- Erwin Seelerb. 1910DEGerman association football player (1910-1997)
- Ingrid Seelerb. 1928DEGerman politician
- Hans-Joachim Seelerb. 1930DEGerman politician and judge (1930-2015)
- Dieter Seelerb. 1931DEGerman association football player (1931-1979)
- Uwe Seelerb. 1936DEGerman association football player (1936–2022)
- Silva Seelerb. 1951DEGerman politician
- Joachim Seelerb. 1964DEGerman politician
- Nick Seelerb. 1993USAmerican ice hockey player
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 160 | #110,286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 152 | #120,164 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 9 | #154,387 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #74,356 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #383,556 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Seeler mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname für den Seiler.
- In which country does Seeler have the most bearers?
- Seeler is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Seeler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.