How popular is “Seamus” in the USA?

Number of people named “Seamus” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Seamus” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Seamus” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Seamus” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Seamus” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Seamus” by birth year

This chart shows how “Seamus” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Males	Bias toward female
1957	9	0.000002142	9	-100%
1958	6	0.000001451	6	-100%
1959	10	0.000002405	10	-100%
1960	9	0.000002167	9	-100%
1961	6	0.000001448	6	-100%
1962	8	0.000001982	8	-100%
1963	6	0.000001516	6	-100%
1964	12	0.000003087	12	-100%
1965	18	0.000004965	18	-100%
1966	14	0.000004028	14	-100%
1967	19	0.000005597	19	-100%
1968	16	0.000004736	16	-100%
1969	14	0.000004028	14	-100%
1970	17	0.000004714	17	-100%
1971	24	0.000006992	24	-100%
1972	26	0.000008272	26	-100%
1973	29	0.000009613	29	-100%
1974	34	0.000011184	34	-100%
1975	36	0.000011923	36	-100%
1976	32	0.000010546	32	-100%
1977	47	0.000014796	47	-100%
1978	47	0.000014808	47	-100%
1979	41	0.000012323	41	-100%
1980	50	0.000014516	50	-100%
1981	59	0.000017055	59	-100%
1982	49	0.000013968	49	-100%
1983	31	0.000008951	31	-100%
1984	47	0.000013472	47	-100%
1985	54	0.00001513	54	-100%
1986	44	0.00001237	44	-100%
1987	50	0.000013867	50	-100%
1988	55	0.000014885	55	-100%
1989	58	0.000015087	58	-100%
1990	75	0.000018975	75	-100%
1991	78	0.000020024	78	-100%
1992	83	0.000021607	83	-100%
1993	88	0.00002334	88	-100%
1994	111	0.000029858	111	-100%
1995	130	0.000035498	130	-100%
1996	157	0.000043047	157	-100%
1997	164	0.000045232	164	-100%
1998	164	0.000044587	164	-100%
1999	191	0.000051707	191	-100%
2000	194	0.000051324	194	-100%
2001	188	0.000050222	188	-100%
2002	215	0.000057513	215	-100%
2003	248	0.000065223	248	-100%
2004	233	0.00006098	233	-100%
2005	254	0.000066062	254	-100%
2006	244	0.000061676	244	-100%
2007	296	0.000074043	296	-100%
2008	298	0.000075814	298	-100%
2009	276	0.000072248	276	-100%
2010	240	0.00006494	240	-100%
2011	258	0.000070534	258	-100%
2012	259	0.000070816	259	-100%
2013	247	0.000067752	247	-100%
2014	239	0.000064483	239	-100%
2015	221	0.000059715	221	-100%
2016	218	0.000059422	218	-100%
2017	211	0.000059001	211	-100%
2018	178	0.000050627	178	-100%
2019	197	0.000056757	197	-100%
2020	161	0.000048195	161	-100%
2021	158	0.000046636	158	-100%
2022	143	0.000042268	143	-100%
2023	137	0.000041375	137	-100%
2024	125	0.000037554	125	-100%

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