as a Last Name
- 7,741
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named See
Meaning & Origins
English and German: topographic name for someone who lived by the sea-shore or beside a lake, from Middle English see ‘sea’, ‘lake’ (Old English sǣ), Middle High German sē. Alternatively, the English name may denote someone who lived by a watercourse, from an Old English sēoh ‘watercourse’, ‘drain’.
| 3,985th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,741
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named See per capita
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