Seale Family Crest & Name History

Ancestors listed as Seale are often found as Seals a generation earlier. The family name meaning is “Seal / from Seal”, the same as for Seals.

• Related forms: Seal.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• Seale sounds close to Sale, so it can help to search both.
• Before spelling was fixed, Seals was also written Seale.
• Seale ranked 5,905 in the 2010 US Census, with 5,846 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Seals and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Seale family name pack.