Seamus
Seamus is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 125 births. Its best rank was 735th, in 2003.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1250.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2008298 births
- Best rank
- #735in 2003
- Since 1957
- 7,656people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,656 boys have been named Seamus in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 298 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 32%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2008, its biggest year
Seamus was the 753rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Seamus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aleksandarpeak 2005
- Gabrielpeak 2008
- Giancarlopeak 2008
- Xavierpeak 2007
- Eanpeak 2007
- Josuepeak 2007
- Keelanpeak 2015
- Cavanpeak 2008
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.