Family name origins & meanings
- English : occupational name for a stone- or bricklayer, from Middle English setter ‘one who lays stones or bricks in building’ (agent derivative of setten ‘to set’).
- English : occupational name from Old French saietier ‘silk weaver’ (an agent derivative of sayete, a kind of silk).
- English : from an agent derivative of Middle English setten ‘to place (decoration, on a garment or metal surface)’, probably an occupational name for an embroiderer.
- German : unexplained.
- Norwegian : unexplained.