Seymour

Seymour is the 1,426th most common surname in the United States, shared by 24,319 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,300.

By the numbers

People: 24,319
Rank: 1,426th
How common: 1 in 12,300
Per 100,000: 8.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

From a Norman surname from a place in Normandy, from Old French Saint-Maur, from Latin Sanctus Maurus (“Saint Maurus”). The name is cognate to Murry and Maurice.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.9%
Black, not Hispanic 10.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Seymour

Jane Seymour (1508–1537)third wife of Henry VIII of England
Jane Seymour (born 1951)British actress
Stephanie Seymour (born 1968)American model and actress
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1500–1552)Nobleman
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (1508–1549)brother of English queen Jane Seymour
David Seymour (1911–1956)Polish photographer and photojournalist
Horatio Seymour (1810–1886)American politician
William J. Seymour (1870–1922)American minister

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

Surnames like Seymour

Seymore

Also a first name

Seymour has been given to 13,122 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.