Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Sagal is a form of Segal. Segal comes from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sagal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 260
- 0 boys · 260 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,823 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −56%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,823 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 413 as a first name in 2020; 437 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sagal’s family of names
In English usage, Sagal as a surname has a related form in SEGAL. In Russian usage, Sagal as a surname is a transliteration of Сагал.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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