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Given name & surname · also German

See

See is a surname from German. It is used in English and Tagalog.

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

See comes from German, and ultimately from Hokkien.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

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Babies since 1880
395
0 boys · 395 girls
Most popular year
1982
34 babies
2025
0
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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0102030198020002025Highest share 19820.0
See in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1979–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 14 in 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 34 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,675 as a first name in 2020; 8,860 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

See’s family of names

In Filipino usage, See as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with SHI. In Filipino usage, See as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with SY. In Filipino usage, See as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with SZE.

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SeeShi

The ring: across languages.

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Around the world

See has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.

EnglishTagalogGerman

4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Chua is a surname from Hokkien. It is used in English, Tagalog, and Indonesian.

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Trier is a surname from German, ultimately from Gaulish. It is used in English and German.

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>99% girls

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Pui is a surname from Cantonese, ultimately from Hokkien. It is used in Romanian and Indonesian.

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“lineage” · “noble”

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

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