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Hyman

Boys' name

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Hyman has been given to 5,858 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1916, with 379 recorded.

Babies named Hyman, 2014

1 in 530,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hyman: meaning, origin, and history

Life

Hebrew

What Hyman means

Hyman means “life”, associated with ḥayím.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Anglicisation of Hyam, from Hebrew חַיִּים (ḥayím, “life”).

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Hyman is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Hyman comes through Hebrew חַיִּים.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hyam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,858 boys were recorded with the name Hyman between 1880 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 379 in 1916; its best national rank was #214 in 1911.

How common is Hyman?

Hyman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 530,000
7 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 274,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
367,053 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hyman 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 2014 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 367,053 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hyman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hymans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hyman was born before 1918 — so the typical Hyman is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.31%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
408
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1910s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (2,778).

Is Hyman 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (379)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#214
1911

Spellings of Hyman

Hyman is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 54.3% against Hyman's 0.33%.

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 Hyman is used

Across 1910–2025, Hyman was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 4,348 boys, against 1 in 20,902 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 4,348
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 10,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 33,333
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 33,333
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Hyman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Hyman

People whose public names include Hyman, 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.

Hyman 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
#214
1911
Peak year
1916
379 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
5,858
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hyman

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

ArmanLymanOsmanAymanUsmanGermanSalmanAmanTrumanWymanTillmanImanFreemanFermanRahmanKalmanLuqmanNamanHarmanColmanBowmanCaymanBenjimanColeman

Names with a curve like Hyman

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

IsadoreIsidoreSigmundMeyerAloysiusCasimirSolEllsworthOrvalAloisAbeAlbin

Sibling names for Hyman

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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