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Sheamus

#11,780 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Séamus

Sheamus has been given to 541 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #11,780 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Sheamus, 2025

1 in 553,000

Sheamus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sheamus: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Séamus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sheamus means

Sheamus is a form of Séamus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sheamus is used in Irish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃeɪ.məs/ for Sheamus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Séamus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 541 boys were recorded with the name Sheamus between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2014; its best national rank was #3,144 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,192 in 2020 to #11,780 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,524 in 2015 to #11,780 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sheamus?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,780
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sheamus sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheamus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sheamuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sheamus was born before 2011 — so the typical Sheamus is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
541
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2010s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (253).

Is Sheamus rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,025
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,588
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,256
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.27×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.7%
Peak was 2014 (36)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,144
2014

Spellings of Sheamus

Sheamus is not the most common spelling — Seamus is, with 77.1% against Sheamus's 5.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sheamus is used

Across 1910–2025, Sheamus was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,468,984 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sheamus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sheamus around the world

Where Sheamus ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    1967–1992
    #337
    in 1992
  • Canada
    2005–2017
    #2,091
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1987–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sheamus by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,780
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,588
Best rank ever
#3,144
2014
Peak year
2014
36 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
541
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Sheamus

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sheamus

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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