Last Name SEALS

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: At the sele, i.e. Sale. Just as Sale is found as Sales, so Seal has become Seals. Also local, 'of Seal,' parishes in counties Leicester, Surrey, and Kent.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	2,222 (2000 US census)	1,425 (1990 US census)

Count	15,020 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

55.09%, or 8275 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
40.41%, or 6070 total occurrences, as black,
0.28%, or 42 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.08%, or 162 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.78%, or 267 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.36%, or 204 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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