The Sekula surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 966 people carried this name — #25,555 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 303,000 people counted. That is up 10% from 878 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Sekula surname
Borrowed from Polish Sekuła and, less commonly, Sekula.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Sekula» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Poland’s population register
6,215 people named Sekula have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 6,870 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Lesser Poland.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 75 people named Sekula.
27 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 35 people named Sekula live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Misiones.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
36 people named Sekula is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Sekula,
with a public archive behind them.
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Sonia Sekula 1918–1963 · painter
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Sonia Sekula 1918–1963 · painter
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Allan Sekula 1951–2013 · photographer
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sekula.
- Seilhan 131 · U.S. census
- Sein 755 · U.S. census
- Seiter 1,986 · U.S. census
- Seitz 12,630 · U.S. census
- Seivert 491 · U.S. census
- Seiwert 429 · U.S. census
- Selig 2,020 · U.S. census
- Seligmann 174 · U.S. census
- Selin 736 · U.S. census
- Sella 506 · U.S. census
- Selle 1,410 · U.S. census
- Sellen 407 · U.S. census
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