Last name SETH: origin and meaning

Posted by Arica Deslauriers on Friday, May 17, 2024

Seth : 1: Indian (northern states): variant of Sheth.2: English: topographic name for someone who lived by a pit from Middle English sethe ‘pit hole’ (Old English sēath).3: English: perhaps also from the Old Testament Biblical personal name Seth from a word meaning ‘appointed’ in Hebrew.4: Scottish (Fife): Anglicized form of any of several surnames based on the Gaelic personal name Sitheach (see Shaw 2).5: Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farms named Set from Old Norse setr ‘farmstead dwelling’. In North America this surname may also be an altered form of the variant Sæth.

Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press

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