Given name & surname
Sigal
“an aromatic plant not definitively identified”
Sigal is a surname from Hebrew.
Original Hebrewסיגל
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sigal is a romanization of סיגל. סיגל means “an aromatic plant not definitively identified.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sigal 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
Sigal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 31
- 0 boys · 31 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 346 as a first name in 2020; 831 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.
Sigal’s family of names
In Hebrew usage, Sigal is a Roman-alphabet rendering of סיגל. In English usage, Sigal as a surname has a related form in SEGAL. In German usage, Sigal as a surname has a related form in SIGL.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Around the world
Sigal has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
Hebrewwhere Sigal comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sigal
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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