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Haytham

#4,918 in 2025Boys' name

Young eagle

Haytham has been given to 350 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #4,918 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Haytham, 2025

1 in 166,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haytham: meaning, origin, and history

Young eagle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Haytham means

Haytham means “young eagle”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 350 boys were recorded with the name Haytham between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,049 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,103 in 2020 to #4,918 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,594 in 2015 to #4,918 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.

How common is Haytham?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,918
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haytham 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haytham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haythams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haytham was born before 2015 — so the typical Haytham is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
350
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (154).

Is Haytham 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
−157
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+185
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+676
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2014 (25)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,049
2014

Spellings of Haytham

Haytham is not the most common spelling — Jaythan is, with 35.1% against Haytham's 12.9%.

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.

Haytham around the world

Where Haytham 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
    1996–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2009
    #626
    in 2009
  • France
    1993–2025
    #1,978
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Haytham by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,918
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 185
Best rank ever
#4,049
2014
Peak year
2014
25 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
350
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Haytham

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

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Sibling names for Haytham

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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