Seumas

For the Irish variant, see Séamus.

Seumas (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈʃeːməs]) is a masculine given name in Scottish Gaelic and Scots,^[1] equivalent to the English James.^[2] The vocative case of the Scottish Gaelic Seumas is Sheumais, which has given form to the Anglicised form of this name, Hamish.^[3] In Irish, Seumas is the older form of the modern Séamas. Another earlier form of Séamas is Séamus, which is partially Anglicised as Seamus.^[4]

Seumas

Pronunciation	Scottish Gaelic: [ˈʃeːməs̪]
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	Scottish Gaelic, Scots
Origin
Meaning	Jacob
Other names
Variant form(s)	Seumus
Cognate(s)	Jacob, James, Séamas, Séamus
Derivative(s)	Hamish

List of people with the given name

• Seumas McNally (1979–2000), a computer game programmer.
• Seumas Milne (born 1958), a British journalist and political aide.
• Seumas O'Kelly (c. 1875–1918), an Irish author and playwright.
• Seumas O'Sullivan (1879–1958), an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine.