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Hiram

#1,639 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly high-born

Hiram has been given to 14,456 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,639 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 221 recorded.

Babies named Hiram, 2025

1 in 32,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hiram: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly high-born

Hebrew

What Hiram means

Hiram may mean “high-born”, associated with Ḥirám.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Biblical Hebrew חִירָם (Ḥirám, “high-born”), possibly from Phoenician, or a shortened form of אֲחִירָם ('aḥirám, “brother of the exalted”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hiram (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Hiram is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Hiram comes through Biblical Hebrew חִירָם.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include אֲחִירָם.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hiram is pronounced /ˈhaɪɹəm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,456 boys were recorded with the name Hiram between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 221 in 1920; its best national rank was #124 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,529 in 2020 to #1,639 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,447 in 2015 to #1,639 in 2025.

How common is Hiram?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,200
103 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,639
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hiram 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hiram. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hirams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hiram was born before 1950 — so the typical Hiram is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,251
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 12.7% of all recorded uses (1,830).

Is Hiram 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
+115
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−110
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−192
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.6%
Peak was 1920 (221)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#124
1881

Spellings of Hiram

Hiram is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 74.5% against Hiram's 3.0%.

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 Hiram is used

Across 2016–2025, Hiram was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 16,054 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 6,250
  2. 2Texas1 in 7,692
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 12,500
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Georgia1 in 16,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 20,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8Colorado1 in 50,000

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.

Hiram around the world

Where Hiram 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2017–2025
    #2,356
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Notable people named Hiram

People whose public names include Hiram, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hiram by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,639
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 110
Best rank ever
#124
1881
Peak year
1920
221 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,456
Count in 2025
103

Names similar to Hiram

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

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Names with a curve like Hiram

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hiram, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Hiram

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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