Seamus

boys:

7.5k births since 1957

#1363 (70th percentile)

overall:

7.5k births since 1957

#3107 (60th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Seamus".

1957 2023 19572023

Key Statistics

Total Births
7,530
Peak Births
298
Peak Year
2007
First Recorded
1957
Peak Percentile
31.4%
Current Percentile
14.4%
Peak Rank
#587
Current Rank
#780
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Seamus

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Seamus. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 76.2% confident that Seamus is pronounced as SHAY-muhs. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-muhs, at 14.3% confidence.

SHAY-muhs (2 syllables)
Verified
76.2% confidence
SH EY1 M AH0 S
SEE-muhs (2 syllables)
14.3% confidence
S IY1 M AH0 S
SHEE-muhs (2 syllables)
9.5% confidence
SH IY1 M AH0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Seamus. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Seamus, please vote using the thumbs up button.

shamz (1 syllable)
1 name 353 births
SH AE1 M Z

Names with this pronunciation:

SHAL-muhs (2 syllables)
2 names 70 births
SH AE1 L M AH0 S

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like SH EY1 M AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.