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Haim

#9,198 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Chaim

Haim has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #9,198 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Haim, 2025

1 in 414,000

Haim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haim: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Chaim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Haim means

Haim is a alternate transcription of Chaim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Haim → 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, 152 boys were recorded with the name Haim between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2021; its best national rank was #5,198 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,916 in 2020 to #9,198 in 2025.

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 Haim?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,198
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haim 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haim was born before 2016 — so the typical Haim is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
152
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Haim 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
+95
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+718
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2021 (11)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,198
1971

Spellings of Haim

Haim is not the most common spelling — Jim is, with 20.4% against Haim's 0.02%.

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 Haim is used

Across 1910–2025, Haim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 783,755 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. Haim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haim around the world

Where Haim 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
    2020–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1920–2025
    #3,776
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Haim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,198
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 718
Best rank ever
#5,198
1971
Peak year
2021
11 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Haim

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

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Sibling names for Haim

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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