Segal

Segal is the 4,698th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,319 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 40,800.

By the numbers

People: 7,319
Rank: 4,698th
How common: 1 in 40,800
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Segal

George Segal (1934–2021)American actor
Erich Segal (1937–2010)American writer
Peter Segal (born 1962)American film director
Arthur Segal (1875–1944)Romanian artist
Hanna Segal (1918–2011)British psychologist

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

Surnames like Segal

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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.