Segel
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Segel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: sail.
- USUnited States1 in 592K(measured from records)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 84K
- DKDenmark1 in 99K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sail
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Segel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Segel | 2 |
| US United States | 562 | 1 in 592K | 602 | Segel | 229 |
| MA Morocco | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Segel | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Segel | 6 |
| CL Chile | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 1 | Segel | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 59 | 1 in 99K | 59 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 43 | 1 in 237K | 43 | — | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
Segel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovenian, masculine singular l-participle of sẹ́či (“to reach”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, sail; a piece of fabric attached to a boat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, superseded spelling of Seegel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, alternative form of seġl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, seal (stamp)
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)
- Anton Segelb. 1850UAholocaust victim, b. 1850-04-09
- Olga Walter-Segelb. 1865ATAustrian pianist and playwright
- Harold Segelb. 1930USAmerican academic (1930-2016)
- Joseph Segelb. 1931USAmerican entrepreneur
- Lee Segelb. 1932USApplied mathematician (1932-2005)
- James Segelb. 1945USpolitician in Massachusetts, US
- Jonathan Segelb. 1963USAmerican composer and multi-instrumentalist
- Jason Segelb. 1980USAmerican actor (born 1980)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 602 | #35,387 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 562 | #39,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 560 | #41,826 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 59 | #9,035 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 43 | #14,284 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Segel mean, and where does it come from?
- sail Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Segel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Segel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled segel.
- How common is the name Segel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 562 people named Segel in 2010, about 1 in 592 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/segelThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Segel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.