Hamish — #5985 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Hamish

The Social Security Administration has registered 350 babies named Hamish between 1981 and 2024, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hamish currently holds the #5985 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hamish performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 145 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Hamish shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Hamish in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hamish in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 350 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.