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Chayim

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Chaim

Chayim has been given to 134 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Chayim, 2023

1 in 368,000

Chayim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chayim: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Chaim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chayim means

Chayim is a alternate transcription of Chaim.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chayim is used in Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈχa.jim/ for Chayim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Chayim → Chaim. The family’s meaning is “life”, recorded in English with the source elements חַיִּים.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chaim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 134 boys were recorded with the name Chayim between 1975 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,893 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chayim?

Chayim had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chayim sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chayim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chayims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chayim was born before 2010 — so the typical Chayim is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
134
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Chayim rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (9)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,893
1975

Spellings of Chayim

Chayim is not the most common spelling — Chaim is, with 60.6% against Chayim's 0.67%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Chayim is used

Across 1910–2025, Chayim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,258 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chayim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chayim around the world

Where Chayim ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,476
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Chayim by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,893
1975
Peak year
2016
9 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chayim

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Chayim

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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