The setter Surname
setter Name Meaning and History
- English: occupational name for a stone- or bricklayer, from Middle English setter ‘one who lays stones or bricks in building’ (agent derivative of setten ‘to set’).
- English: occupational name from Old French saietier ‘silk weaver’ (an agent derivative of sayete, a kind of silk).
- English: from an agent derivative of Middle English setten ‘to place (decoration, on a garment or metal surface)’, probably an occupational name for an embroiderer.
- German: unexplained.
- Norwegian: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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