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Seamus - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Seamus

[ 2 syll. sea-mus, se-am-us ] The boy name Seamus is pronounced as SHEYMahS KEY. Seamus is largely used in the Irish and Scottish languages. Its language of origin is varied. Seamus is a variant form of the name James (English).

Seamus is a somewhat popular baby boy name. The name's popularity has been rising since the 1990s; before that, it was of very modest use only. At the recent peak of its usage in 2008, 0.014% of baby boys were given the name Seamus. It was #751 in rank then. In 2008, out of the family of boy names directly linked to Seamus, James (English) was the most widely used. It was 50 times more widely used than Seamus in that year.

Baby names that sound like Seamus include Samko (Czech), Sanchez (Spanish), Sancho (Spanish), Sanjay (Indian), Sanji (Japanese), Sansao (Portuguese), Shinji (Japanese), Simunek (Czech), Sionek (Czech), Sjanoek (Dutch), Smokey (English), Sashenka (Russian), Seumas (Scottish and Irish), Sheng (Chinese), Shing, Shinichi (Japanese), Simecek (Czech), Sinisa (Slavic), Sjang (Dutch), and Sung (Korean).

KEY: English pronunciation for Seamus: SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)"


 
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