Sæter
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname of Norwegian origin (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/sæːtɛr/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Sæter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 2,056 people, counted by SSB.
- NONorway1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
- PLPoland1 in 13M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,056 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sæter in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Saeter in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SE Sweden.
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.
How to pronounce Sæter
- Norwegian:/sæːtɛr/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a surname of Norwegian origin
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sæter is found
(measured from records)Sæter 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 | 2,056 | 1 in 2.7K | 2.1K | Sæter | 24 |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | Saeter | 5 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Saeter | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Saeter | 5 |
2,056 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Sæter 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 Danish, a saeter (a livestock pasture with buildings, traditionally used between May and September)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Obsolete form of saeter.
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)- Lars Sæterb. 1895NONorwegian politician (1895-1988)
- Arne Sæterb. 1913NONorwegian politician (1913-1973)
- John Hou Sæterb. 1998NOChinese association football player (born 1998)
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sæter mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname of Norwegian origin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sæter?
- In Norwegian /sæːtɛr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sæter?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Sæter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sæter. After it come Sweden and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sæter most common?
- Sæter is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sæter?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,056 people named Sæter, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sæter?
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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%A6terThe 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, “Sæter” — ranked 450th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.