Given name & surname

Segal

Segal is a surname from Hebrew.

Original Hebrewסגל

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Segal comes from Hebrew.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Hebrew סגל (Segel).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Segal’s family of names

In English usage, Segal as a surname has a related form in SIGAL. In English usage, Segal as a surname has a related form in SIGAL. In English usage, Segal as a surname has a related form in SAGAL.

Walk Segal’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Segal has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.

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Hebrewwhere Segal comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Segal, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Hebrew · Biblical

Sallu

“heaping up” · “highway making”

No U.S. birth series

60% boys · 40% girls

Hebrew · Biblical

Sodi

“my assembly” · “assembly of Yah”

No U.S. birth series

30% boys · 70% girls

Hebrew · Biblical

Sheshan

“whitish” · “lily”

No U.S. birth series

60% boys · 40% girls

Hebrew

Salomé

“peace”

No U.S. birth series

50% boys · 50% girls

Hebrew

Esav

Esav is a given name from Hebrew.

No U.S. birth series

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Hebrew

Sabado

“Sabbath, Saturday”

No U.S. birth series

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Hebrew · Biblical

Shebna

“seat of beauty - captured - please let return”

No U.S. birth series

40% boys · 60% girls

Hebrew · Biblical

Eldaah

“God has called”

No U.S. birth series

29% boys · 71% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Segal’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Segal