Hamish

Hamish
GenderMasculine
Language(s)English
Origin
Word/nameSeumas (voc. Sheumais)
Other names
See alsoJames, Jacob, Jake, Jack

Hamish is a Scottish masculine given name. It is the anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name Seamus or Sheumais.[1] It is therefore, the equivalent of James.

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 118, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1