Meaning not yet researched.
Seamus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 154 in 2025. Its best rank was #735 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #735 in 2003; #1,280 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Seamus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,280 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #735.
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Seamus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 154 boys in 2025. Peak: #735 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 298 (2008).
In 2025, 154 US boys were named Seamus, making it the 1,280th most common boys’ name of the year, up 177 places from #1,457 in 2024. That is 29 more than the 125 boys named Seamus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #735, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 298, in 2008. For comparison, it was #946 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Seamus in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 9 babies. In all, 7,809 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,446 babies named Seamus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,682 US boys were named Seamus; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 218. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,091 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Seamus ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #295 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include James (5,274,520 babies since 1880), Jim (153,938 babies since 1880), Diego (126,405 babies since 1880) and Santiago (103,965 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Seumas are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Seumas (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Seamus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 20 | #295 | #301 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #570 | #582 |
| Missouri | 7 | #776 | #933 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #793 | #890 |
| Michigan | 9 | #822 | #961 |
| Colorado | 6 | #835 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #927 | #1,187 |
| Virginia | 7 | #951 | #870 |
| New York | 11 | #1,107 | #693 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,132 | #689 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,159 | #656 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,255 | #614 |
| California | 5 | #2,751 | #1,253 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,893 | #1,629 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 154 | #1,280 |
| 2024 | — | — | 125 | #1,457 |
| 2023 | — | — | 137 | #1,366 |
| 2022 | — | — | 143 | #1,319 |
| 2021 | — | — | 158 | #1,223 |
| 2020 | — | — | 161 | #1,195 |
| 2019 | — | — | 197 | #1,046 |
| 2018 | — | — | 178 | #1,106 |
| 2017 | — | — | 211 | #979 |
| 2016 | — | — | 218 | #953 |
| 2015 | — | — | 221 | #946 |
| 2014 | — | — | 239 | #903 |
| 2013 | — | — | 247 | #864 |
| 2012 | — | — | 259 | #838 |
| 2011 | — | — | 258 | #837 |
| 2010 | — | — | 240 | #875 |
| 2009 | — | — | 276 | #808 |
| 2008 | — | — | 298 | #753 |
| 2007 | — | — | 296 | #752 |
| 2006 | — | — | 244 | #833 |
| 2005 | — | — | 254 | #776 |
| 2004 | — | — | 233 | #782 |
| 2003 | — | — | 248 | #735 |
| 2002 | — | — | 215 | #802 |
| 2001 | — | — | 188 | #857 |
| 2000 | — | — | 194 | #828 |
| 1999 | — | — | 191 | #804 |
| 1998 | — | — | 164 | #891 |
| 1997 | — | — | 164 | #863 |
| 1996 | — | — | 157 | #878 |
| 1995 | — | — | 130 | #977 |
| 1994 | — | — | 111 | #1,062 |
| 1993 | — | — | 88 | #1,203 |
| 1992 | — | — | 83 | #1,244 |
| 1991 | — | — | 78 | #1,272 |
| 1990 | — | — | 75 | #1,285 |
| 1989 | — | — | 58 | #1,450 |
| 1988 | — | — | 55 | #1,422 |
| 1987 | — | — | 50 | #1,462 |
| 1986 | — | — | 44 | #1,530 |
| 1985 | — | — | 54 | #1,316 |
| 1984 | — | — | 47 | #1,393 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,810 |
| 1982 | — | — | 49 | #1,359 |
| 1981 | — | — | 59 | #1,198 |
| 1980 | — | — | 50 | #1,338 |
| 1979 | — | — | 41 | #1,486 |
| 1978 | — | — | 47 | #1,349 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,333 |
| 1976 | — | — | 32 | #1,671 |
| 1975 | — | — | 36 | #1,498 |
| 1974 | — | — | 34 | #1,515 |
| 1973 | — | — | 28 | #1,691 |
| 1972 | — | — | 26 | #1,760 |
| 1971 | — | — | 24 | #1,856 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,277 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,400 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,094 |
| 1967 | — | — | 19 | #1,844 |
| 1966 | — | — | 14 | #2,203 |
| 1965 | — | — | 18 | #1,907 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,527 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,984 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,270 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #4,001 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #3,042 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,792 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,871 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,994 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).