Seymour

Where Seymour comes from

From a Norman surname from a place in Normandy, from Old French Saint-Maur, from Late Latin Sanctus Maurus (“Saint Maurus”). The name is cognate to Murry and Maurice.
— Wiktionary's entry for Seymour
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #482 among boys — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1924
    Peak, #182
    786 babies named Seymour — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1925
    Seymour Cray born
    Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical engineer
  4. 1928
    Seymour Papert born
    MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator
  5. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #302.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Seymour Cray · Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical engineer, 1925–1996
  • Seymour Papert · MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, 1928–2016
  • Seymour Hersh · American investigative journalist, born 1937
  • Seymour Martin Lipset · American sociologist, 1922–2006
  • Seymour Cassel · American actor, 1935–2019

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.