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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of Norwegian Sæter, a common habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Sæter, named with Old Norse sætr, setr ‘farm’. In more recent formations it means ‘mountain farm’, ‘summer dairy’.

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