Sheth
Template:Sister project Sheth (also Seth) is an Indian surname, found in northern India and in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal. It derives from Sanskrit श्रेष्ठिन् (Template:IAST3), meaning "banker/head of a guild".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
It may also be a variant of the Western European surname Seth;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> if Scottish or Irish,a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Sithigh or Ó Síthigh (see Sheehy);Template:Citation needed or of the Indian surnames ShahTemplate:Citation needed or Shett.Template:Citation needed
Notable people with this surname include:
- Brian Sheth (born 1975), American businessman
- Jagdish Sheth (born 1938), professor at Emory University
- Sheetal Sheth (born 1976), American actress
- Vatsal Sheth (born 1980), Bollywood actor