Seamus
#1,276 for boys in 2025, 154 births
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 248 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,809since 1957
Seamus over time
Rank among boys' names. Seamus has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,276 | 154 |
| 2024 | #1,448 | 125 |
| 2023 | #1,365 | 137 |
| 2022 | #1,314 | 143 |
| 2021 | #1,218 | 158 |
| 2020 | #1,194 | 161 |
| 2019 | #1,044 | 197 |
| 2018 | #1,101 | 178 |
| 2017 | #977 | 211 |
| 2016 | #952 | 218 |
| 2015 | #946 | 221 |
| 2014 | #898 | 239 |
| 2013 | #862 | 247 |
| 2012 | #838 | 259 |
| 2011 | #836 | 258 |
| 2010 | #874 | 240 |
| 2009 | #806 | 276 |
| 2008 | #753 | 298 |
| 2007 | #751 | 296 |
| 2006 | #832 | 244 |
| 2005 | #776 | 254 |
| 2004 | #778 | 233 |
| 2003 | #734 | 248 |
| 2002 | #802 | 215 |
| 2001 | #852 | 188 |
| 2000 | #824 | 194 |
| 1999 | #799 | 191 |
| 1998 | #888 | 164 |
| 1997 | #859 | 164 |
| 1996 | #874 | 157 |
| 1995 | #970 | 130 |
| 1994 | #1,059 | 111 |
| 1993 | #1,196 | 88 |
| 1992 | #1,237 | 83 |
| 1991 | #1,264 | 78 |
| 1990 | #1,278 | 75 |
| 1989 | #1,433 | 58 |
| 1988 | #1,404 | 55 |
| 1987 | #1,439 | 50 |
| 1986 | #1,511 | 44 |
| 1985 | #1,304 | 54 |
| 1984 | #1,382 | 47 |
| 1983 | #1,787 | 31 |
| 1982 | #1,342 | 49 |
| 1981 | #1,198 | 59 |
| 1980 | #1,324 | 50 |
| 1979 | #1,464 | 41 |
| 1978 | #1,326 | 47 |
| 1977 | #1,312 | 47 |
| 1976 | #1,646 | 32 |
| 1975 | #1,478 | 36 |
| 1974 | #1,501 | 34 |
| 1973 | #1,653 | 28 |
| 1972 | #1,721 | 26 |
| 1971 | #1,823 | 24 |
| 1970 | #2,213 | 17 |
| 1969 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #2,030 | 16 |
| 1967 | #1,809 | 19 |
| 1966 | #2,132 | 14 |
| 1965 | #1,856 | 18 |
| 1964 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #2,663 | 10 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #2,822 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Seamus! It came in at #2,822, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1958, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Seamus is popular in 1980
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#903 · 1 in 16,077
Best ever in a state: #120 in New Hampshire, 1991.
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| New York | #903 | 7 | 1 in 16,077 |
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See more about Seamus
- 172 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,276)
- 82 spots since 2020 (#1,194 → #1,276)
- 330 spots since 2015 (#946 → #1,276)
- Biggest jump: 96 spots in 1996 (#970 → #874)
- Biggest drop: 124 spots in 2018 (#977 → #1,101)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2003 at #734 (248 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1995–2017
- Highest: 1 in 6,846 boys born in 2008 were named Seamus (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,091 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #734 in 2003, was only 1 in 7,965 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.3% of all boys named Seamus (2,446) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 25 | #2,663 (1959) | #3,015 |
| 1960s | 122 | #1,809 (1967) | #2,575 |
| 1970s | 332 | #1,312 (1977) | #1,614 |
| 1980s | 497 | #1,198 (1981) | #1,412 |
| 1990s | 1,241 | #799 (1999) | #1,042 |
| 2000s | 2,446 | #734 (2003) | #791 |
| 2010s | 2,268 | #836 (2011) | #933 |
| 2020s | 878 | #1,194 (2020) | #1,303 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Seamus in 1980
Top boys' names in 1980
More about 1980
boys
1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 35,679 of them was named Seamus, which outranked 81.8% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,313Jerred51
- #1,313Layne51
- #1,313Tariq51
- #1,324Seamus50
- #1,324Constantine50
- #1,324Corwin50
- #1,324Dandre50
- #1,341Abdullah49
- #1,341Abelardo49
- #1,341Alain49
Tied with 16 names at #1,324; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.