Seth Forename
4,006th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 262,689 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Ghana
Highest density in:
Ghana
Seth Forename Definition:
A male name. Hebrew ‘substitute’ compensation', the name of one of the ss. of Adam, born after the death of Abel. It was used as a christian name after the Reformation, the earliest example noted being Seth Holywell (d. 1557), whose name occurs in a Hunts Clergy List.
Read More About This ForenameSeth Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 100% | 108,495 | 1:249 | 39 |
| United States | 100% | 87,431 | 1:4,147 | 635 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 10,152 | 1:1,120 | 240 |
| Kenya | 100% | 8,484 | 1:5,458 | 845 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 7,278 | 1:7,253 | 1,068 |
| India | 99% | 5,065 | 1:239,857 | 23,741 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 4,232 | 1:5,584 | 1,110 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 4,006 | 1:44,325 | 3,383 |
| South Africa | 98% | 2,040 | 1:26,732 | 3,356 |
| Uganda | 99% | 1,932 | 1:21,199 | 1,688 |
| England | 100% | 1,882 | 1:29,545 | 1,661 |
| Philippines | 86% | 1,841 | 1:57,583 | 4,002 |
| Sudan | - | 1,785 | 1:21,180 | 2,091 |
| Togo | - | 1,731 | 1:4,182 | 696 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,429 | 1:23,186 | 2,002 |
| DR Congo | 98% | 1,390 | 1:53,113 | 3,388 |
| Papua New Guinea | 96% | 1,324 | 1:6,157 | 642 |
| Sweden | 100% | 1,301 | 1:7,577 | 730 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 1,002 | 1:193,970 | 6,604 |
| Namibia | - | 926 | 1:2,596 | 469 |
| Congo | 79% | 720 | 1:6,957 | 960 |
| Mexico | 96% | 672 | 1:184,739 | 3,440 |
| Australia | - | 580 | 1:23,548 | 1,553 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 499 | 1:33,872 | 2,677 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 466 | 1:66,121 | 7,124 |
| Malawi | 100% | 381 | 1:44,914 | 3,117 |
| Thailand | 100% | 374 | 1:187,342 | 12,679 |
| Poland | 98% | 330 | 1:115,234 | 2,410 |
| Senegal | 99% | 287 | 1:50,806 | 2,014 |
| Egypt | 100% | 260 | 1:353,465 | 10,818 |
| New Zealand | - | 240 | 1:18,900 | 1,528 |
| Zimbabwe | 79% | 236 | 1:65,355 | 5,285 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 212 | 1:1,216,810 | 71,496 |
| Liberia | 97% | 211 | 1:20,910 | 1,429 |
| Gabon | 100% | 200 | 1:9,417 | 1,573 |
| Brazil | 100% | 192 | 1:1,115,813 | 28,314 |
| Malaysia | 96% | 157 | 1:193,949 | 11,321 |
| Cambodia | 54% | 147 | 1:110,703 | 4,683 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 134 | 1:161,272 | 7,295 |
| Vanuatu | - | 133 | 1:1,968 | 489 |
| Botswana | 100% | 121 | 1:18,053 | 2,233 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Germany | 100% | 114 | 1:848,052 | 7,149 |
| China | - | 109 | 1:12,532,622 | 59,829 |
| Japan | - | 97 | 1:1,319,444 | 16,783 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 81 | 1:7,172 | 785 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 79 | 1:25,823 | 3,116 |
| Zambia | - | 78 | 1:203,267 | 7,061 |
| Belgium | 100% | 73 | 1:157,398 | 4,346 |
| Scotland | 100% | 73 | 1:73,293 | 1,955 |
| Singapore | 100% | 71 | 1:88,550 | 7,251 |
| Wales | 100% | 64 | 1:48,349 | 1,714 |
| Ireland | 100% | 62 | 1:74,895 | 2,089 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 62 | 1:168,246 | 7,350 |
| Burkina Faso | 92% | 57 | 1:322,447 | 12,533 |
| Haiti | 100% | 57 | 1:188,192 | 8,529 |
| Kuwait | - | 57 | 1:66,408 | 5,422 |
| Benin | 100% | 55 | 1:192,288 | 9,269 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 49 | 1:144,667 | 358 |
| Ivory Coast | 95% | 46 | 1:501,651 | 18,662 |
| Greenland | - | 41 | 1:1,375 | 278 |
| Russia | 91% | 41 | 1:3,517,895 | 19,426 |
| Qatar | 93% | 38 | 1:62,358 | 7,477 |
| Spain | 100% | 37 | 1:1,257,567 | 9,556 |
| Denmark | - | 35 | 1:161,414 | 3,904 |
| South Korea | - | 35 | 1:158,412 | 6,684 |
| Peru | 90% | 34 | 1:935,043 | 12,870 |
| Hong Kong | - | 33 | 1:234,931 | 3,399 |
| Norway | 100% | 32 | 1:160,385 | 4,349 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 32 | 1:256,672 | 5,387 |
| France | 100% | 31 | 1:2,144,205 | 12,301 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 30 | 1:61,438 | 1,282 |
| Israel | 59% | 30 | 1:280,097 | 7,331 |
| Barbados | - | 27 | 1:10,733 | 1,111 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 27 | 1:50,423 | 4,495 |
| Italy | 97% | 25 | 1:2,442,484 | 15,834 |
| Estonia | 100% | 23 | 1:57,190 | 3,101 |
| Chile | 95% | 19 | 1:926,695 | 8,687 |
| Panama | 100% | 19 | 1:205,608 | 7,846 |
| Costa Rica | 93% | 17 | 1:280,468 | 5,518 |
| Angola | 100% | 16 | 1:1,685,413 | 2,877 |
| Burundi | - | 16 | 1:619,160 | 838 |
| Ecuador | - | 16 | 1:1,107,932 | 8,230 |
| Honduras | 100% | 15 | 1:587,831 | 8,292 |
| Finland | 100% | 14 | 1:391,656 | 5,045 |
| Iraq | 100% | 14 | 1:2,501,276 | 13,388 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 13 | 1:8,442 | 1,163 |
| Afghanistan | 80% | 12 | 1:2,718,626 | 20,989 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 12 | 1:1,980,807 | 51,381 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 11 | 1:2,745,627 | 44,124 |
| Guam | - | 10 | 1:16,065 | 1,791 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 9 | 1:11,044 | 1,733 |
| Argentina | 75% | 9 | 1:4,752,583 | 12,276 |
| Bangladesh | - | 9 | 1:17,717,930 | 19,122 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 9 | 1:96,786 | 2,691 |
| Guyana | 100% | 9 | 1:84,807 | 6,788 |
| Mozambique | - | 9 | 1:3,027,040 | 2,336 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 9 | 1:2,311,010 | 7,931 |
| Swaziland | - | 9 | 1:144,464 | 1,815 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 9 | 1:794,666 | 24,808 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 8 | 1:22,227 | 2,229 |
| El Salvador | - | 7 | 1:905,969 | 6,148 |
| Jamaica | - | 7 | 1:411,890 | 11,384 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Czechia | 100% | 6 | 1:1,776,027 | 4,577 |
| Greece | 100% | 6 | 1:1,822,425 | 10,706 |
| Austria | 100% | 5 | 1:1,702,840 | 9,344 |
| Belarus | 100% | 5 | 1:1,896,477 | 8,406 |
| Colombia | 100% | 5 | 1:9,555,785 | 40,229 |
| Bermuda | - | 4 | 1:16,206 | 1,525 |
| Chad | 100% | 4 | 1:3,399,600 | 8,891 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Grenada | 100% | 4 | 1:27,031 | 2,323 |
| Mali | 100% | 4 | 1:4,244,439 | 5,329 |
| Palau | - | 4 | 1:5,428 | 88 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Somalia | - | 4 | 1:3,381,467 | 5,208 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 4 | 1:23,155,778 | 5,302 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 3 | 1:20,433 | 1,694 |
| Croatia | - | 3 | 1:1,405,692 | 11,430 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 3 | 1:5,369,476 | 9,171 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Lebanon | - | 3 | 1:1,875,857 | 11,580 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 3 | 1:188,016 | 3,003 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 3 | 1:17,077 | 2,297 |
| Turkey | - | 3 | 1:25,933,903 | 52,822 |
| Ukraine | - | 3 | 1:15,166,636 | 17,541 |
| Anguilla | - | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Brunei | - | 2 | 1:209,785 | 2,478 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Northern Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
Seth (205,576) may also be a surname.
Seth Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Hebrew ‘substitute’ compensation', the name of one of the ss. of Adam, born after the death of Abel. It was used as a christian name after the Reformation, the earliest example noted being Seth Holywell (d. 1557), whose name occurs in a Hunts Clergy List. It is now seldom used in England, but is commoner in the USA.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Hebrew, ‘appointed.’ This manly and agreeable name is—though slowly in rural districts—dying out in Britain, but America has wisely retained Italian It is also a surname brilliant in the realms of philosophy.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A male name derived from the Scripture name, in Hebrew שח, Sheth, signifying ‘appointed.’ Fuerstius writes the name S’et, and renders it ‘kriegsgetümmel,’ i. e. war bustle or noise.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Seth, set up, put, who puts. The son of Adam and Eve, born A. M. 130. Gen. v. 3 8.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: appointed: set.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: The appointed: substitute.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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