Sheth
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The bar on a plough which projects downward beneath the beam to connect to the sole
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃɛθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sheth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 76K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 81K
- USUnited States1 in 82K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
17,455 people
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The bar on a plough which projects downward beneath the beam to connect to the sole.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sheth 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 17,455 | 1 in 76K | 17K | Sheth | 194 |
| US United States | 4,038 | 1 in 82K | 5.1K | Sheth | 312 |
| AO Angola | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Sheth | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 910 | Sheth | 98 |
| CA Canada | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Sheth | 67 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Sheth | 11 |
| EE Estonia | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | — | 4 |
17,455 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sheth is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In enm, alternative form of schethe (“sheath”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amit Shethb. 1959INIndian computer scientist, University of South Carolina
- Brian Shethb. 1975USAmerican business executive
- Aneesh Shethb. 1982INIndian-American transgender actress
- Bina Sheth LashkariINDoorstep school founder in India
- Kartik ShethUSresearcher
- Bhavisha P ShethINresearcher
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 17K | #677 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.1K | #6,423 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,217 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,350 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 910 | #7,137 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 42 | #6,765 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Sheth mean, and where does it come from?
- The bar on a plough which projects downward beneath the beam to connect to the sole. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sheth?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɛθ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Sheth have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Sheth, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sheth.
- How common is the name Sheth?
- In India, the national register counted 17,455 people named Sheth, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shethThe 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, “Sheth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.