Hyman
Hyman was last recorded in 2014, when 7 babies were given it; 5,858 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hyman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hyman mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hyman is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “life” (חַיִּים).
Anglicisation of Hyam, from Hebrew חַיִּים (ḥayím, “life”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hyman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,025, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
379 babies in 1916, the peak
Hyman peaked in 1916, when 379 boys were given it, #253 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #10,025 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,635 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,734 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,090 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 8 | #3,981 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,841 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,136 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,134 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,379 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,940 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,280 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,070 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,589 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #1,926 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,049 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,973 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 25 | #1,555 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,788 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 26 | #1,491 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #1,722 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,227 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,514 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,850 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,678 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,753 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,342 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,888 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,536 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,734 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,444 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,603 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,294 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,466 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 39 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 75 | #699 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 53 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 69 | #774 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 87 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 129 | #545 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 118 | #568 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 131 | #536 | 0.12 |
| 1924 | 165 | #482 | 0.15 |
| 1923 | 221 | #404 | 0.20 |
| 1922 | 242 | #389 | 0.22 |
| 1921 | 240 | #391 | 0.22 |
| 1920 | 269 | #365 | 0.25 |
| 1919 | 292 | #330 | 0.30 |
| 1918 | 333 | #304 | 0.33 |
| 1917 | 328 | #287 | 0.35 |
| 1916 | 379 | #253 | 0.43 |
| 1915 | 378 | #247 | 0.45 |
| 1914 | 336 | #232 | 0.51 |
| 1913 | 280 | #222 | 0.55 |
| 1912 | 255 | #215 | 0.59 |
| 1911 | 137 | #214 | 0.61 |
| 1910 | 60 | #320 | 0.31 |
| 1909 | 81 | #245 | 0.49 |
| 1908 | 54 | #299 | 0.35 |
| 1907 | 46 | #315 | 0.31 |
| 1906 | 40 | #326 | 0.30 |
| 1905 | 34 | #356 | 0.26 |
| 1904 | 26 | #413 | 0.20 |
| 1903 | 21 | #456 | 0.18 |
| 1902 | 14 | #600 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 19 | #444 | 0.18 |
| 1900 | 22 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1899 | 11 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 21 | #442 | 0.17 |
| 1897 | 15 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 12 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1895 | 12 | #625 | 0.10 |
| 1894 | 12 | #607 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 11 | #632 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 6 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 6 | #941 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 8 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 5 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 6 | #869 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hyman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hyman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hyman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hyman, and how old are they?
An estimated 425 Americans named Hyman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (7% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 60 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 771 people named Hyman (7 women and girls, 764 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 581 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hyman born?
The states with the most babies named Hyman are New York, Massachusetts and Illinois, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 3,030 | not ranked | 5.7× |
| Massachusetts | 404 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 216 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 201 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 159 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 91 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 64 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Hyman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hyman is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 5.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hyman with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,143 babies since 1880, Hyman is the most given (95% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hyman
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hyman and names like it
- Compare Hyman and HymenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHyman peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hyman since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Hyman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Hyman.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hyman alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.