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Seymour
Say it: SEE-mor
Meaning
From a Norman surname taken from Saint-Maur in France, named after Saint Maurus.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
An aristocratic English surname that became a given name in the 19th century, popular among Jewish-American families in the early 20th century.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1920s
In the United States
- 13,084 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1924, about 1 in 1,400 boys
- 6 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.