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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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