Segev

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Segev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 3M(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael1 in 2Kas שגב
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 26K

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 Segev 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.

Israel (measured from records)

4,444 named שגב, 2017

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
129 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Cyprus, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SegevLatin(measured from records)
שגבHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled שגב in IL Israel, MA Morocco, RO Romania 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)

Segev 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.

Where Segev is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IL Israel#1584,444as שגב1 in 2K4.4Kשגב95
RO Romania—≈700 est.≈1 in 31K—שגב3
MA Morocco—≈500 est.≈1 in 71K—שגב5
QA Qatar#795≈250 est.≈1 in 10K—שגב1
IN India—≈150 est.≈1 in 9M—שגב4
US United States—1121 in 3M215Segev129
LB Lebanon—≈100 est.≈1 in 53K—שגב2
CY Cyprus—≈49 est.≈1 in 26K—Segev7

4,444 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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 2020. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Segev is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Śegev

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Israel, Cyprus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Сегев, Śegev

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Śegev

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Samuel Segev, b. 1926Tom Segev, b. 1945Idan Segev, b. 1949Danny Segev, b. 1955Tal Segev, b. 1973Gilad Segev, b. 1974Elad Segev, b. 1974Arik Segev, b. 1975

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.

Official registers attesting Segev
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020215#91,884
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010112#147,253
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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

In which country does Segev have the most bearers?
In Israel, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named שגב, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Segev?
In the United States, the national register counted 112 people named Segev in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
How common is Segev compared with other names?
In Israel, Segev is the 158th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Segev” — the 158th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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