Shamus — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shamus

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,778 babies named Shamus between 1959 and 2025, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shamus currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 72 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shamus performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 502 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shamus shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Massachusetts, which accounts for 106 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Shamus in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shamus 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 1,778 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.