Meaning not yet researched.
Seymour: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #182 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #182 in 1924; #7,594 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Seymour in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,594 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #182.
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Seymour: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #182 in 1924 · most boys in one year: 786 (1924).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Seymour, making it the 7,594th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,161 places from #10,755 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 7 boys named Seymour in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #182, reached in 1924. That year also had the most boys given the name: 786. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,427 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Seymour in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 14 babies. In all, 13,122 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 6,543 babies named Seymour.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 59 US boys were named Seymour; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Seymore and Seymoure are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Morey and See.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Seymore (259), Seymoure (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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 11 | #7,594 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,755 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,604 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #12,085 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #13,769 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,426 |
| 2017 | — | — | 5 | #13,925 |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #8,067 |
| 2014 | — | — | 5 | #13,739 |
| 2013 | — | — | 6 | #11,923 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #12,020 |
| 2010 | — | — | 5 | #13,926 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #12,116 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,679 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,788 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #9,070 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,695 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #10,288 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,482 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,284 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,423 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,953 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #9,010 |
| 1988 | — | — | 9 | #5,151 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,947 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,249 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,402 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,269 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,119 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,654 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,354 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,844 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,706 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,527 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,753 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,120 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,664 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,865 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,275 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,881 |
| 1967 | — | — | 18 | #1,893 |
| 1966 | — | — | 18 | #1,879 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #2,065 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,247 |
| 1963 | — | — | 16 | #2,102 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #3,013 |
| 1961 | — | — | 20 | #1,871 |
| 1960 | — | — | 19 | #1,903 |
| 1959 | — | — | 19 | #1,910 |
| 1958 | — | — | 19 | #1,885 |
| 1957 | — | — | 28 | #1,508 |
| 1956 | — | — | 30 | #1,439 |
| 1955 | — | — | 24 | #1,604 |
| 1954 | — | — | 27 | #1,492 |
| 1953 | — | — | 29 | #1,423 |
| 1952 | — | — | 36 | #1,239 |
| 1951 | — | — | 25 | #1,517 |
| 1950 | — | — | 27 | #1,427 |
| 1949 | — | — | 33 | #1,272 |
| 1948 | — | — | 44 | #1,072 |
| 1947 | — | — | 63 | #885 |
| 1946 | — | — | 45 | #1,029 |
| 1945 | — | — | 58 | #828 |
| 1944 | — | — | 50 | #905 |
| 1943 | — | — | 66 | #815 |
| 1942 | — | — | 81 | #716 |
| 1941 | — | — | 81 | #682 |
| 1940 | — | — | 84 | #665 |
| 1939 | — | — | 112 | #543 |
| 1938 | — | — | 114 | #545 |
| 1937 | — | — | 145 | #467 |
| 1936 | — | — | 162 | #442 |
| 1935 | — | — | 159 | #451 |
| 1934 | — | — | 186 | #407 |
| 1933 | — | — | 245 | #344 |
| 1932 | — | — | 267 | #338 |
| 1931 | — | — | 340 | #302 |
| 1930 | — | — | 447 | #266 |
| 1929 | — | — | 464 | #260 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,334 | 568 | #231 |
| 1927 | — | — | 569 | #233 |
| 1926 | — | — | 660 | #208 |
| 1925 | — | — | 668 | #210 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,779 | 786 | #182 |
| 1923 | — | — | 723 | #192 |
| 1922 | — | — | 735 | #189 |
| 1921 | — | — | 700 | #196 |
| 1920 | — | — | 660 | #202 |
| 1919 | — | — | 576 | #216 |
| 1918 | — | — | 511 | #234 |
| 1917 | — | — | 434 | #242 |
| 1916 | — | — | 376 | #255 |
| 1915 | — | — | 303 | #286 |
| 1914 | — | — | 245 | #284 |
| 1913 | — | — | 157 | #323 |
| 1912 | — | — | 118 | #351 |
| 1911 | — | — | 49 | #414 |
| 1910 | — | — | 25 | #580 |
| 1909 | — | — | 17 | #674 |
| 1908 | — | — | 16 | #681 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #925 |
| 1906 | — | — | 8 | #990 |
| 1905 | — | — | 14 | #659 |
| 1904 | — | — | 12 | #715 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #996 |
| 1902 | — | — | 9 | #853 |
| 1901 | — | — | 9 | #773 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #897 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #846 |
| 1898 | — | — | 9 | #794 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #781 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #633 |
| 1895 | — | — | 11 | #671 |
| 1894 | — | — | 12 | #622 |
| 1893 | — | — | 9 | #762 |
| 1892 | — | — | 11 | #681 |
| 1891 | — | — | 8 | #756 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #454 |
| 1889 | — | — | 10 | #665 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #693 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #739 |
| 1886 | — | — | 10 | #639 |
| 1885 | — | — | 10 | #632 |
| 1884 | — | — | 10 | #650 |
| 1883 | — | — | 10 | #636 |
| 1882 | — | — | 10 | #643 |
| 1881 | — | — | 12 | #527 |
| 1880 | — | — | 14 | #502 |
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).