Boy's name
Seosamh
“SHOH-sav (Mayo and Ulster SHOH-soo)”
from Hebrew Yosef, '(God) shall add'
The story behind the name
The Irish Joseph; Woulfe gives it as a variant of Iósep. Wiktionary shows the dialects parting over the ending: a v sound in Munster and Galway, an oo sound in Mayo and Ulster.
Famous people with this name
- Seosamh Mac Grianna (1901–1990) — Irish writer
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Seosamh on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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