Meaning not yet researched.
Shamus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,165 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,165 in 1975; #8,803 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shamus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,803 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #1,165.
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Shamus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,165 in 1975 · most boys in one year: 72 (2007).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Shamus, making it the 8,803rd most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,165, reached in 1975. The most boys given the name in a single year was 72, in 2007. For comparison, it was #5,030 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shamus in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 7 babies. In all, 1,778 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 502 babies named Shamus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 100 US boys were named Shamus; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Shaymus, Shamese and Shaemus 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shaymus (80), Shamese (15), Shaemus (12), Shamise (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 Shamus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,803 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,810 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,675 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,499 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #11,811 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,757 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,707 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,742 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,300 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #5,030 |
| 2014 | — | — | 18 | #5,230 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,944 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2011 | — | — | 35 | #3,229 |
| 2010 | — | — | 38 | #3,064 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,442 |
| 2008 | — | — | 59 | #2,256 |
| 2007 | — | — | 72 | #1,970 |
| 2006 | — | — | 70 | #1,938 |
| 2005 | — | — | 51 | #2,322 |
| 2004 | — | — | 43 | #2,565 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,837 |
| 2002 | — | — | 40 | #2,499 |
| 2001 | — | — | 35 | #2,728 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,248 |
| 1999 | — | — | 39 | #2,337 |
| 1998 | — | — | 44 | #2,120 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,157 |
| 1996 | — | — | 37 | #2,247 |
| 1995 | — | — | 42 | #2,020 |
| 1994 | — | — | 33 | #2,385 |
| 1993 | — | — | 41 | #1,998 |
| 1992 | — | — | 28 | #2,589 |
| 1991 | — | — | 25 | #2,740 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,148 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,604 |
| 1988 | — | — | 30 | #2,129 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20 | #2,709 |
| 1986 | — | — | 22 | #2,495 |
| 1985 | — | — | 19 | #2,695 |
| 1984 | — | — | 23 | #2,279 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #2,009 |
| 1982 | — | — | 31 | #1,849 |
| 1981 | — | — | 38 | #1,597 |
| 1980 | — | — | 45 | #1,428 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,460 |
| 1978 | — | — | 37 | #1,562 |
| 1977 | — | — | 50 | #1,267 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,602 |
| 1975 | — | — | 53 | #1,165 |
| 1974 | — | — | 46 | #1,243 |
| 1973 | — | — | 35 | #1,457 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,067 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,115 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #3,040 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,662 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,071 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,499 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,202 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,352 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,562 |
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).