Hamish is a Scottish masculine given name, an Anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name , itself the vocative of (the Gaelic equivalent of ). The name traces its roots through English to Middle English , Old French , Vulgar Latin , Latin , Ancient Greek (Iákōbos), and ultimately Hebrew (Yaʿăqōḇ), meaning "supplanter", "to supersede", or "heel-grabber." It is thus a doublet of .
Hamish is a Scottish masculine given name, an Anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name , itself the vocative of (the Gaelic equivalent of ). The name traces its roots through English to Middle English , Old French , Vulgar Latin , Latin , Ancient Greek (Iákōbos), and ultimately Hebrew (Yaʿăqōḇ), meaning "supplanter", "to supersede", or "heel-grabber." It is thus a doublet of .
Outside Scotland, it has gained popularity in Australia and New Zealand, where it ranks among the top 200 and 300 boys' names respectively, reflecting the influence of Scottish immigration. It is also occasionally found in Canada, South Africa, and other Commonwealth countries, though it remains less common in the United States.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).