Hamish

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Meaning

Hamish is a Scottish masculine given name, an Anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name Sheumais, itself the vocative of Seumas.

From Wikipedia

Hamish first appears in the data in 1997 and has been recorded in 28 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2016 with 807 babies (rank #65 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Hamish

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Hamish yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

6,745
Total babies (all years)
28
Years in the data
807
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1997164#82
1998167#81
1999177#76
200065#104
2001137#87
2002167#82
2003178#73
2004194#74
2005154#89
2006137#73
2007126#79
2008303#52
2009300#53
2010292#53
2011279#56
2012245#73
201395#103
2014241#76
2015736#68
2016807#65
2017354#67
2018311#76
2019387#72
2020185#94
2021123#96
2022220#69
2023110#93
202491#108