Sheth

At the 2020 census, 5,089 Americans bore the surname Sheth — 6,423rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 58,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,089
Rank: 6,423rd
How common: 1 in 58,700
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Indian surname, spelling variant of Seth, of Hindu, Jain, and Parsi origin, all from derivatives of Sanskrit श्रेष्ठिन् (“banker, head of a guild”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.1%
White, not Hispanic 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Sheth

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.