Meaning: Supplanter; one who follows
Origin: Latin Iacomus, from Greek Iakobos, from Hebrew Yaakov (Jacob)
Gender: Boy
Rank in Ireland: #3
Total births: 51,701
History: James has been among Ireland's most enduring names, carried by the great novelist James Joyce, whose Ulysses immortalised Dublin's streets. The Irish form Séamus connects it to Gaelic tradition, as in poet Séamus Heaney from County Derry, Nobel laureate in 1995. James Connolly, executed after the 1916 Easter Rising, gave the name revolutionary significance. From Grafton Street to Galway Bay, James remains woven into the fabric of Irish identity.
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