Sæther
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname of Norwegian origin
/sæːthɛr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sæther is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 482(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 120K
- GHGhana≈1 in 302K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sæther itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 482 (inferred from the name graph)
11,352 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saether in US United States, SE Sweden, GH Ghana.
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)
a surname of Norwegian origin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sæther 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #268 | 11,352 | 1 in 482 | 11K | Sæther | 58 |
| US United States | — | 102as Saether | 1 in 3.3M | 103 | Saether | 50 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Saether | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 79as Saether | 1 in 129K | 79 | Saether | 18 |
| DK Denmark | — | 49 | 1 in 120K | 49 | Sæther | 19 |
| FI Finland | — | 30as Saether | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
11,352 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ole Sætherb. 1870NOsport shooter (1870-1946)
- Olaf Sætherb. 1871NOsport shooter (1871-1945)
- Ole A. Sætherb. 1936NONorwegian entomologist (1936–2013)
- Wera Sætherb. 1945NONorwegian writer
- Harald Sætherb. 1946NONorwegian musician (1946–2021)
- Svein Ole Sætherb. 1948NONorwegian diplomat
- Andrine Sætherb. 1964NONorwegian actress
- Yngve Sætherb. 1964NONorwegian film producer
- Bent Sætherb. 1969NONorwegian musician
- Eirik Sætherb. 1983NONorwegian artist and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 11K | #64 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 49 | #10,831 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 36 | #16,494 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sæther mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname of Norwegian origin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sæther?
- A machine transcription gives /sæːthɛr/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Sæther have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Sæther, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sæther.
- Where is Sæther most common?
- Sæther is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 482 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sæther?
- In Norway, the national register counted 11,352 people named Sæther, about 1 in 482 residents.
- How common is Sæther compared with other names?
- In Norway, Sæther is the 268th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sæther?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A6therThe 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, “Sæther” — the 268th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.