Sigal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsaɪdʒəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sigal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Variant of Segal.
- RORomania≈1 in 728as סגל(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael1 in 795as סגל
- LBLebanon≈1 in 1.3Kas סגל
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 Sigal 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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 named סגל, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled סגל in US United States, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 2 more and סיגל in IL Israel.
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(measured from records)
Variant of Segal.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sigal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #67 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 728 | — | סגל | 5 |
| US United States | — | 21,536as Siegel | 1 in 15K | 22K | סגל | 111 |
| IL Israel | #51 | 10,919as סגל | 1 in 795 | 11K | סיגל | 84 |
| LB Lebanon | #53 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | סגל | 3 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Sigal | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 415 | 1 in 110K | 415 | סגל | 3 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | סגל | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 36 | 1 in 94K | 36 | — | 1 |
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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Sigal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kr, s. the signs of the Arabic vowels, and also other ortho- graphical signs, as Jazma, Tashdid, Wasla &c
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In kr, s. shin-bone
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
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)
- Louis Sigalb. 1877FRFrench archaeologist
- Clancy Sigalb. 1926USAmerican novelist and screenwriter (1926–2017)
- Isaak Sigalb. 1927UAUkrainian scientist
- Izrail Segalb. 1938RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1938–2016)
- Silvia Sigalb. 1939ARArgentine sociologist
- Humberto C. Sigalb. 1941ARArgentinian politician
- Israel Michael Sigalb. 1945CACanadian mathematician
- Lisa Sigalb. 1962USpainter and sculptor (born 1962)
- Rodrigo Sigalb. 1971MXMexican composer
- Pablo Sigalactor
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 42 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 831 | #30,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 787 | #28,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 598 | #37,288 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 415 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 36 | — |
| 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 given-name 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 Sigal mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Segal. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sigal?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsaɪdʒəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sigal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named סגל in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sigal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sigal is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 94 thousand people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sigal?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 415 people named Sigal, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
- How common is Sigal compared with other names?
- In Romania, Sigal is the 67th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sigal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sigalThe 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, “Sigal” — the 67th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.