Say: Surname History and Family Crest

Search old registers for Say and you will soon meet Seay too. In origin, the name means “From Sai”.

Say coat of arms

There is no single Say family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Spelling and variants

Say drops the “e” of Seay, a shortening that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The 2010 census count for Say in the United States was 3,302, good for rank 9,803. From 1891 to 2000, 324 births in France were registered under Say. Births under the name grew in the later decades. Say sounds close to Sá, so it can help to search both. Get the complete Say report, with a museum-style coat of arms.