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seal Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Sale 1.
  2. English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of seals or signet rings, from Middle English, Old French seel ‘seal’ (Latin sigillum).
  3. English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of saddles, from Old French seele ‘saddle’.
  4. English: nickname for a plump or ungainly person, from Middle English sele ‘seal’ (the aquatic mammal).
  5. Americanized form (translation) of Jewish Siegel.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The seal name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the seal family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of seal Families in the US in 1920
Number of seal families
 50-98
 17-49		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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