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Hyrum

#3,469 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Hiram

Hyrum has been given to 3,406 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,469 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 123 recorded.

Babies named Hyrum, 2025

1 in 100,000

Hyrum over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hyrum: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Hiram

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hyrum means

Hyrum is a variant of Hiram.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hyrum → Hiram. The family’s proposed meaning is “high-born”, recorded in English with the source elements Ḥirám.

Origin, language, and formation

Hyrum is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hiram.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,406 boys were recorded with the name Hyrum between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 123 in 2007; its best national rank was #664 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,101 in 2020 to #3,469 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,651 in 2015 to #3,469 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hyrum?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,469
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hyrum 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hyrum. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hyrums were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hyrum was born before 2006 — so the typical Hyrum is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,991
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (969).

Is Hyrum 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
−783
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,368
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,818
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.34×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.8%
Peak was 2007 (123)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#664
1883

Spellings of Hyrum

Hyrum is not the most common spelling — Cyrus is, with 52.3% against Hyrum's 6.1%.

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 Hyrum is used

Across 1910–2025, Hyrum was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,136 boys, against 1 in 21,321 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

088 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,136
  2. 2Idaho1 in 2,632
  3. 3Arizona1 in 14,286
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Oregon1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Hyrum has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hyrum around the world

Where Hyrum 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
    2000–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #2,611
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Hyrum

People whose public names include Hyrum, 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.

Hyrum by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,469
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,368
Best rank ever
#664
1883
Peak year
2007
123 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,406
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Hyrum

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

AvrumHyramAbrumBertrumAurumLandrumByrumCorumOrumPedrum

Names with a curve like Hyrum

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

ElyAndreyMarekBrighamObedKeelanNeelLathanNikitaJacobiAndreiSebastien

Sibling names for Hyrum

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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