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Hymie

Boys' name

Diminutive of Hyman

Hymie has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1917, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Hymie, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hymie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Hyman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hymie means

Hymie is a diminutive of Hyman.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hymie is used in Jewish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hymie → Hyman. The family’s meaning is “life”, recorded in English with the source elements ḥayím.

Origin, language, and formation

Hymie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hyman.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hymie is pronounced /ˈhaɪmi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 113 boys were recorded with the name Hymie between 1912 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,488 in 1917.

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 Hymie?

Hymie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hymie 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hymie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hymies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hymie was born before 1919 — so the typical Hymie is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
50.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 50.4% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Hymie 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 1917 (11)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,488
1917

Spellings of Hymie

Hymie is not the most common spelling — Jamie is, with 66.4% against Hymie's 0.08%.

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 Hymie is used

Across 1910–2025, Hymie was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 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. Hymie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hymie 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
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Best rank ever
#2,488
1917
Peak year
1917
11 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hymie

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

HymenShlomieJimieRaymieJemmieRamieKimmieMamieTammieAmmieCarmieRomieJaramieSamieLimmieLummieAmieJermieCommieRemieTomieCammieJaymieJerimie

Sibling names for Hymie

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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