Seymour
About 13,122 American babies have been named Seymour since 1880, most of them around 1924. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 1,100 Seymours are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Seymour boys named Seymour
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,122
- Estimated living today
- 1,100
- Median age today
- 75
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 182nd
- Rank in 2025
- 7,194th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 10 / 13,112
How old the living Seymours are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,122 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,100 are alive — 8 in every hundred. Roughly 80 of them are children and 740 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From a Norman surname from a place in Normandy, from Old French Saint-Maur, from Latin Sanctus Maurus (“Saint Maurus”). The name is cognate to Murry and Maurice.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Seymours
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014)American actor
- Julian Seymour Schwinger (1918–1994)American theoretical physicist
- Seymour Cray (1925–1996)Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical engineer
- Seymour Papert (1928–2016)MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator
- Seymour Hersh (born 1937)American investigative journalist
- Seymour Martin Lipset (1922–2006)American sociologist
- Seymour Cassel (1935–2019)American actor
- Seymour Benzer (1921–2007)American geneticist
People named Seymour with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Seymour is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Seymour is most concentrated in New York (9.3×), New Jersey (2.6×), Illinois (1.7×), Connecticut (1.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Seymour peaked:
Seymour elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Seymour | 6 | 3,651st |
| France boys | Seymour | 5 | 2,925th |
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.
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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.