Hamish
Hamish is a boy's name that peaked in 2017, when it was the 4,105th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 360 Hamishes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hamish
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 364
- Estimated living today
- 360
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 4,105th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1981
How old the living Hamishes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 364 babies given the name since 1981, about 360 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Hamishs
- Hamish Linklater (born 1976)American actor
- Hamish Kerr (born 1996)New Zealand athletics competitor
- Hamish Bond (born 1986)New Zealand rower and cyclist
- Hamish Carter (born 1971)New Zealand Olympic triathlete
- Hamish Harding (1964–2023)British businessman, astronaut, and pilot
- Hamish Turnbull (born 1999)British cyclist
- Hamish Peacock (born 1990)Australian javelin thrower
- Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916)Scottish romantic composer, conductor and teacher
People named Hamish with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hamish is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Hamish peaked:
Hamish elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand boys | Hamish | 5,758 | 33rd |
| England and Wales boys | Hamish | 2,964 | 222nd |
| Scotland boys | Hamish | 2,598 | 57th |
| Ireland boys | Hamish | 22 | 402nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Hamish | 10 | 240th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Hamish among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Hamish | 11 | 17 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Hamish against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.