Seoighe

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • IEIreland≈1 in 96K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 8M
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ireland (inferred from the name graph)

≈54 people, est.

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Seoighe 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 Seoighe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IE Ireland≈54 est.≈1 in 96K—Seoighe28
US United States≈7 est.≈1 in 48M—Seoighe18
GB United Kingdom≈6 est.≈1 in 12MlistedSeoighe12
AU Australia≈3 est.≈1 in 8M—Seoighe9

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.

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)

Seoighe 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 Irish, a surname from Anglo-Norman, equivalent to English Joyce

    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)

1850190019502000James Joyce, b. 1882Alice Joyce, b. 1890William Joyce, b. 1906Lucia Joyce, b. 1907Eileen Joyce, b. 1912Elaine Joyce, b. 1945Graham Joyce, b. 1954William Joyce, b. 1957John Joyce, b. 1957Barnaby Joyce, b. 1967
  • James Joyceb. 1882IEnot in their usual nameIrish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
  • Alice Joyceb. 1890USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1890-1955)
  • William Joyceb. 1906GBnot in their usual nameBritish fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)
  • Lucia Joyceb. 1907ITnot in their usual nameIrish ballet dancer (1907-1982)
  • Eileen Joyceb. 1912AUnot in their usual nameAustralian pianist (1912–1991)
  • Elaine Joyceb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1945)
  • Graham Joyceb. 1954GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer (1954–2014)
  • William Joyceb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican children's writer (born 1957)
  • John Joyceb. 1957USnot in their usual nameUnited States Representative from Pennsylvania (born 1957)
  • Barnaby Joyceb. 1967AUnot in their usual nameAustralian politician, 17th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

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 2 sources across 1 country.

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

In which country does Seoighe have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 54 people named Seoighe in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seoighe.
How common is the name Seoighe?
Mondonomo estimates about 54 people in Ireland have Seoighe as their first surname, about 1 in 96 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Seoighe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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