Seals

At the 2020 census, 15,308 Americans bore the surname Seals — 2,324th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,500.

By the numbers

People: 15,308
Rank: 2,324th
How common: 1 in 19,500
Per 100,000: 5.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Seals described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 50.3%
Black, not Hispanic 39.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Seals

Barry Seals (1939–1986)American drug smuggler

People named Seals with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Seals

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.