Seymour
Seymour was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,590 among boys’ names; 13,122 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Seymour and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (8% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 57 and 86.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Seymour by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Seymour mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Seymour is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “Saint Maurus” (Maurus).
From a Norman surname from a place in Normandy, from Old French Saint-Maur, from Late Latin Sanctus Maurus (“Saint Maurus”). The name is cognate to Murry and Maurice.
/ˈsiːmɔː(ɹ)/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Seymour?
#7,590 among boys’ names, 2025
Seymour entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,590 in 2025.
791 babies in 1924, the peak
Seymour peaked in 1924, when 791 babies were given it (786 boys, #182 among boys’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,590 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,750 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,599 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,079 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,763 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,420 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,919 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #8,062 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,733 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,916 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (128)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #12,013 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,919 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,110 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,672 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,782 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,281 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,476 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,416 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,945 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,002 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,145 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,940 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,244 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,396 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,117 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,352 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,751 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,118 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,663 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,864 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,274 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,880 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,892 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,878 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,064 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,101 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #3,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,870 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 19 | #1,902 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,909 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,884 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 28 | #1,507 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,438 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 24 | #1,603 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 27 | #1,491 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,422 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,238 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,516 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,426 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,271 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,071 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 63 | #884 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,029 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 58 | #828 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 50 | #905 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 66 | #815 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 81 | #716 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 81 | #682 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 84 | #665 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 112 | #543 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 114 | #545 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 145 | #467 | 0.14 |
| 1936 | 162 | #442 | 0.16 |
| 1935 | 159 | #451 | 0.15 |
| 1934 | 186 | #407 | 0.18 |
| 1933 | 245 | #344 | 0.25 |
| 1932 | 267 | #338 | 0.26 |
| 1931 | 340 | #302 | 0.33 |
| 1930 | 447 | #266 | 0.41 |
| 1929 | 464 | #260 | 0.43 |
| 1928 | 568 | #231 | 0.51 |
| 1927 | 569 | #233 | 0.50 |
| 1926 | 660 | #208 | 0.59 |
| 1925 | 668 | #210 | 0.60 |
| 1924 | 786 | #182 | 0.69 |
| 1923 | 723 | #192 | 0.66 |
| 1922 | 735 | #189 | 0.68 |
| 1921 | 700 | #196 | 0.64 |
| 1920 | 660 | #202 | 0.62 |
| 1919 | 576 | #216 | 0.59 |
| 1918 | 511 | #234 | 0.50 |
| 1917 | 434 | #242 | 0.47 |
| 1916 | 376 | #255 | 0.42 |
| 1915 | 303 | #286 | 0.36 |
| 1914 | 245 | #284 | 0.37 |
| 1913 | 157 | #323 | 0.31 |
| 1912 | 118 | #351 | 0.27 |
| 1911 | 49 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1910 | 25 | #580 | 0.13 |
| 1909 | 17 | #674 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 16 | #681 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 10 | #924 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 8 | #989 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 14 | #659 | 0.11 |
| 1904 | 12 | #715 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 7 | #996 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 9 | #852 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 9 | #773 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 10 | #896 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 8 | #846 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 9 | #793 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 9 | #781 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 13 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 11 | #671 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 12 | #622 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 9 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 11 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 8 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 17 | #454 | 0.15 |
| 1889 | 10 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 10 | #693 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 8 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 10 | #639 | 0.09 |
| 1885 | 10 | #632 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 10 | #650 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 10 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 10 | #643 | 0.09 |
| 1881 | 12 | #527 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 14 | #502 | 0.13 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Seymour a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Seymour has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 128 years of records.
Girls and boys named Seymour: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Seymour, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 8% of the 13,122 Americans ever recorded as Seymour. The median Seymour alive today is 75 years old; half are between 57 and 86.
The 2020 Census counted 2,557 people named Seymour (36 women and girls, 2,521 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,696 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 383 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 323 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 139 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 68 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 42 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 70 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Seymour born?
The states with the most babies named Seymour are New York, Illinois and New Jersey, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8,088 | not ranked | 6.7× |
| Illinois | 974 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 800 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 524 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 329 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 157 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 120 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 98 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Seymour is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Seymour is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 6.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Seymour with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Seymour
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Seymour and names like it
- Compare Seymour and HiroshiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sSeymour peaked in 1924.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Seymour since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Seymour: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Seymour.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Seymour alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with SMost given first.