BABY NAMES · BOY
Seamus
Means “supplanter”
Irish origin
Seamus is the Irish form of James, which comes from the Hebrew Jacob. The Irish poet Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Seamus means "supplanter". It is a boy's name of Irish origin.
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