Given name & surname
Somerset
“from the summer settlement”
Somerset is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the summer settlement.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the summer settlement.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
Somerset’s family of names
Somerset has a related form in Sommerset. Somerset has a related form in Sumerset. Somerset has a related form in Summerset.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Somerset
- Somerset Gough-CalthorpeBritish Royal Navy officer (1865–1937)
- Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl BelmoreIrish nobleman and politician (1774-1841)
- Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl BelmoreIrish nobleman and Conservative politician (1835-1913)
- Somerset Butler, 1st Earl of CarrickIrish peer1718–1774
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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