Chayim — boys' name

What the Data Says About Chayim

The Social Security Administration has registered 134 babies named Chayim between 1975 and 2023, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chayim currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 9 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chayim performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 51 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Chayim shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Chayim in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chayim in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 134 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.