Ham
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ham has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 1886. 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 1918, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Ham, 1929
1 in 438,000
Ham over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ham?
Ham had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1929, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1929
- 1 in 438,000
- 5 of 2,192,103 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 215,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1929
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 303,891 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ham sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1929 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 303,891 children born in 1929 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ham was born before 1921 — so the typical Ham is around 104 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 55.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 79.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 55.2% of all recorded uses (16).
Is Ham 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (7)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Ham by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ham
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ham
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.