Seger
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seger is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liechtenstein it is the 51st most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Patronymisch zu Rufname Se(ge)hart (sig- + -hart); teils auch Übername für einen Schwätzer.
- DEGermany1 in 34K◐
- USUnited States1 in 75K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 179K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.6K ●
- Sources
- 244 ●
- 1 in 8.3K ◐
across 14 countries
39K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Patronymisch zu Rufname Se(ge)hart (sig- + -hart); teils auch Übername für einen Schwätzer.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,434 | 31K rec. | 1 in 75K | 4.4K | Seger | 244 |
| DE Germany | — | 3,301 | 2.9K rec. | — | listed | Seger | 93 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,302 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Seger | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,223△ | 389 rec. | 1 in 8.3K | 1.2K | Seger | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 907△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 233K | 907 | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | 693 | 694 rec. | — | 1 | Seger | 25 |
| AU Australia | — | 625 | 615 rec. | — | — | Seger | 27 |
| FI Finland | — | 450△ | 34 rec. | 1 in 12K | 450 | — | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 320△ | 78 rec. | 1 in 26K | 320 | Seger | 31 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #51 | 208 | 10 rec. | — | 91 | Seger | 14 |
| SG Singapore | — | 152 | 157 rec. | — | — | Seger | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | 126 | 86 rec. | — | — | Seger | 19 |
Roughly 4.4K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 75K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English34K64%
- German6.3K12%
- Portuguese2.3K4%
- French2.1K4%
- Finnish1.5K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 33,943 | 64% |
| German | 6,290 | 12% |
| Portuguese | 2,298 | 4% |
| French | 2,135 | 4% |
| Finnish | 1,546 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Seger is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, 1. s. Säge (Seege- mann). 2. a SIEG, Sigi- heri. 3. < ON. Seeg, |a, er. 4. s. Sacher Seeg|ert, ets: s. SIEG (Si- gihart)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, s. Seeger. Seger-: s. SIEG
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In ban, healthy, hale and hearty
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kaw, fresh, healthy, buoyant
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Swedish, victory
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 14 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 1997–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Josef Segerb. 1716CZCzech violinist, composer and organist
- Hermann August Segerb. 1839DEGerman chemist (1839–1893)
- Johann Friedrich Segerb. 1867DEGerman journalist and politician (1867-1928)
- Gerhart Segerb. 1896DEGerman politician (1896-1967)
- Bob Segerb. 1945USAmerican singer-songwriter
- Adolf Segerb. 1945DEGerman wrestler
- Linda Segerb. 1945USAmerican script consultant, author, seminar leader
- Mathias Segerb. 1977CHSwiss ice hockey player
- Shea Segerb. 1979USAmerican musician
- Caroline Segerb. 1985SESwedish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 71 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Seger?
- We estimate roughly 7.6 thousand people bear Seger (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Seger have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.4 thousand people bear Seger in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled seger.
- How common is Seger compared with other names?
- In Liechtenstein, Seger is the 51st most common surname of 657 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Seger mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymisch zu Rufname Se(ge)hart (sig- + -hart); teils auch Übername für einen Schwätzer.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Seger” — the 51st most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.