Hyram
Hyram was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 66 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hyram by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hyram?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,062, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1923, the peak
Hyram peaked in 1923, when 10 boys were given it, #2,845 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #13,062 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,151 | 4.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,846 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,938 | 2.5 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,679 | 4.3 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,932 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,540 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,845 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,033 | 5.6 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,460 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 6 | #3,606 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hyram a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hyram has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hyram: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hyram, and how old are they?
An estimated 24 Americans named Hyram and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 142 people named Hyram (0 women and girls, 142 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.9 times 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).
How common is the spelling Hyram?
Hyram is a less common spelling of Hiram: SSA has recorded 66 Hyram and 14,456 Hiram since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 17,928 babies since 1880, Hyram is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 136 babies recorded by SSA was a Hyram (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Hyram and names like it
- Compare Hyram and HiramBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHyram peaked in 1923.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Hyram.
- Names starting with HMost given first.