Seaver

Seaver is the 9,550th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,255 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 91,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,255
Rank: 9,550th
How common: 1 in 91,800
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the medieval personal name Sefare, a continuation of an unattested Old English female name composed of the elements sǣ (“sea”) + faru (“journey”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Seaver

Tom Seaver (1944–2020)American baseball player

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

Surnames like Seaver

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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.