Given name & surname
Sheth
“banker, head of a guild”
Sheth is a surname from Sanskrit.
Original Hebrewשת
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sheth goes back to Sanskrit श्रेष्ठिन्, meaning “banker, head of a guild.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sanskrit श्रेष्ठिन् (“banker, head of a guild”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Sheth appears in Numbers 24:17.
From biblical name research
Sheth’s family of names
In English usage, Sheth as a surname has a related form in Seth.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
See also 6
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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