Seth m
Biblical: name (from a Hebrew word meaning ‘appointed, placed’) of the third son of Adam, who was born after the murder of Abel (Genesis 4: 25, ‘And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew’). It was popular among the Puritans (particularly for children born after the death of an elder sibling), and has been occasionally used since. By the 20th century it had become rare. It was used for the darkly passionate rural character Seth Starkadder in Stella Gibbons's comic novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932). In Scotland it has been used as an Anglicized form of SEAGHDH (SEE Seaghdh).
First names dictionary. 2012.