Seth

3,488 people in the United States were counted with the surname Seth in the 2020 census, making it the 8,999th most common in the country. That is about one person in 85,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,488
Rank: 8,999th
How common: 1 in 85,700
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Seth described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 54.2%
White, not Hispanic 30.3%
Black, not Hispanic 8.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Seth

Vikram Seth (born 1952)Indian novelist and poet
Henriett Seth F. (born 1980)Hungarian artist, poet, writer, musician, and autistic savant
Roshan Seth (born 1942)British-Indian actor
Sushma Seth (born 1936)Indian actress
Leila Seth (1930–2017)Indian judge
Seth (born 1962)cartoonist

People named Seth with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Seth

Also a first name

Seth has been given to 166,288 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.