Shamus
- #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 53 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,778since 1959
Shamus over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Shamus has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #4,890 | 19 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #3,164 | 35 |
| 2010 | #3,014 | 38 |
| 2009 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #2,237 | 59 |
| 2007 | #1,951 | 72 |
| 2006 | #1,919 | 70 |
| 2005 | #2,297 | 51 |
| 2004 | #2,531 | 43 |
| 2003 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #2,470 | 40 |
| 2001 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | #2,222 | 44 |
| 1999 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #2,094 | 44 |
| 1997 | #2,126 | 41 |
| 1996 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | #1,988 | 42 |
| 1994 | #2,347 | 33 |
| 1993 | #1,969 | 41 |
| 1992 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #2,683 | 25 |
| 1990 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #2,090 | 30 |
| 1987 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | #2,598 | 19 |
| 1984 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #1,955 | 27 |
| 1982 | #1,815 | 31 |
| 1981 | #1,577 | 38 |
| 1980 | #1,410 | 45 |
| 1979 | #1,435 | 42 |
| 1978 | #1,537 | 37 |
| 1977 | #1,252 | 50 |
| 1976 | #1,572 | 34 |
| 1975 | #1,160 | 53 |
| 1974 | #1,229 | 46 |
| 1973 | #1,435 | 35 |
| 1972 | #2,020 | 20 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #2,549 | 12 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
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First appearance
1959
The first year at least five boys were named Shamus! It came in at #3,290, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1965, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Shamus is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Shamus in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 2,362 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #8,243)
- 3,353 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
16 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1975 at #1,160 (53 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 28,825
- Highest: 1 in 28,825 boys born in 2007 were named Shamus (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,160 in 1975, was only 1 in 29,460 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 28.2% of all boys named Shamus (502) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 7 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,290 |
| 1960s | 38 | #2,549 (1969) | #3,274 |
| 1970s | 339 | #1,160 (1975) | #1,750 |
| 1980s | 280 | #1,410 (1980) | #2,129 |
| 1990s | 350 | #1,969 (1993) | #2,332 |
| 2000s | 502 | #1,919 (2006) | #2,349 |
| 2010s | 220 | #3,014 (2010) | #4,999 |
| 2020s | 42 | #7,089 (2021) | #8,803 |
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.
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