The Sear Family Name

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Sears surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

What Sear means

Bearers of the name Sear share their surname's story with Sears, of which it is a variant. Read literally, Sear points to “Descendant of Segar (sea, warrior), or of Sigehere (victorious, army)”.

Without the “s” of Sears, Sear is a simpler written form of the same name. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Sear ranked 41,728 in the 2010 US Census, with 521 people answering to the name. It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country.

Research your Sear family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.