Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of seals or signet rings, or for an official in charge of a seal, from Middle High German sigel ‘seal’. The Jewish name can also be ornamental.
- German : from a medieval personal name, a pet form of the various Germanic personal names formed with sigi ‘victory’ as the first element, for example Siegfried.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Segal.