Setó
surname · Latin script
Setó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Cantonese 司徒 (si1 tou4).
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 8.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 31K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 55Kfew records
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 Setó 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
2,814 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Seto in US United States, CA Canada, BR Brazil and 4 more.
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)Borrowed from Cantonese 司徒 (si1 tou4).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Setó is found
(measured from records)Setó 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 | — | 2,814 | 1 in 118K | 2.8K | Seto | 290 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 1 | Seto | 145 |
| HK Hong Kong | #851 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Seto | 31 |
| ES Spain | — | 336 | 1 in 149K | 336 | Seto | 44 |
| BR Brazil | — | 294 | 1 in 720K | 294 | Seto | 45 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Seto | 31 |
| SM San Marino | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Seto | 1 |
2,814 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)- Javier Setób. 1926ESSpanish screenwriter, director (1926–1969)
- Lluís-Anton Baulenasb. 1958ESnot in their usual nameCatalan writer, translator and literary critic
- Jaume Setó CornadóESSpanish politician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Setó mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Cantonese 司徒 (si1 tou4). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Setó?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Setó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seto. After it come Canada, Hong Kong, Spain and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Setó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,814 people named Setó in 2010, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
- How common is Setó compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Setó is the 851st most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Setó?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/set%C3%B3The 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, “Setó” — the 851st most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.