Šeat
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021
Šeat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); c.
- HRCroatia1 in 146K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 497K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 320Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 146K (inferred from the name graph)
669 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Сеат in MK North Macedonia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishsete(measured from records)
- Old Englishsǣte(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*sētiją“seat”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*sed-“to sit”(measured from records)
- Old Englishsǣte“house”(measured from records)
From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); compare Old English set (“seat”). Sense 2 (“location or site”) is probably derived from Old English sǣte (“house”), which is related to Old High German sāza (“sedan, seat, domicile”). cognates * Middle Dutch gesaete * Old High German gisazi (modern German Gesäß)
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šeat is found
(measured from records)Šeat counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 669 | 1 in 497K | 683 | — | 14 |
| HR Croatia | 29 | 1 in 146K | 29 | Šeat | 8 |
| RS Serbia | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Šeat | 7 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | — | 212 | Сеат | 3 |
| XK Kosovo | — | — | 45 | — | 1 |
669 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; State Statistical Office — living population names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šeat mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); c… Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šeat?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 669 people named Šeat, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Croatia and Serbia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šeat most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šeat is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 146 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šeat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 669 people named Šeat in 2010, about 1 in 497 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1eatThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šeat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.