Hyrum
Hyrum was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,469 among boys’ names; 3,406 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,930 Americans named Hyrum and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hyrum by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hyrum mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hyrum is “a male given name associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”
Related to Hiram?
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hyrum?
#3,469 among boys’ names, 2025
Hyrum fell from #1,651 in 2015 to #3,469 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 50.1 to 19.3 per million.
123 babies in 2007, the peak
Hyrum peaked in 2007, when 123 boys were given it, #1,362 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,469 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,686 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 34 | #3,443 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,254 | 36.7 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,259 | 35.4 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,101 | 38.8 |
| 2019 | 74 | #1,985 | 41.2 |
| 2018 | 86 | #1,781 | 47.4 |
| 2017 | 88 | #1,753 | 47.5 |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,487 | 60.6 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #1,651 | 50.1 |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,567 | 52.6 |
| 2013 | 112 | #1,468 | 59.2 |
| 2012 | 104 | #1,536 | 54.8 |
| 2011 | 100 | #1,567 | 52.7 |
| 2010 | 76 | #1,888 | 39.6 |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,540 | 53.9 |
| 2008 | 113 | #1,457 | 55.4 |
| 2007 | 123 | #1,362 | 59.3 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,432 | 53.0 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,433 | 51.6 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,396 | 51.4 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,439 | 46.1 |
| 2002 | 78 | #1,573 | 40.2 |
| 2001 | 84 | #1,459 | 43.2 |
| 2000 | 59 | #1,817 | 30.0 |
| 1999 | 49 | #1,971 | 25.5 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,133 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 51 | #1,842 | 27.1 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,790 | 26.9 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,416 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 34 | #2,319 | 17.6 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,097 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,261 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,375 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,102 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,635 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,588 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,255 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,823 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,002 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,060 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,043 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,461 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,820 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,743 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,922 | 16.3 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,239 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,233 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,359 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,244 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,208 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,842 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,456 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,242 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,152 | 5.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,492 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,855 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,809 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,494 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,197 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,234 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,071 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,662 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,617 | 2.9 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,968 | 4.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,146 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,640 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,804 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,559 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,680 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,709 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,750 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,034 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,334 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,434 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,468 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,631 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,017 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,027 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,255 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,385 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,865 | 16.3 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,285 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,644 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,500 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,544 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,517 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,901 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,862 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,860 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,578 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,680 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,667 | 21.6 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,044 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,020 | 16.5 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,033 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,537 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,812 | 20.9 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,867 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,708 | 25.7 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,073 | 48.9 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,124 | 47.1 |
| 1888 | 9 | #726 | 74.5 |
| 1887 | 6 | #869 | 59.2 |
| 1886 | 6 | #900 | 54.2 |
| 1885 | 7 | #801 | 64.9 |
| 1884 | 8 | #726 | 69.9 |
| 1883 | 9 | #664 | 86.0 |
| 1881 | 7 | #744 | 69.5 |
| 1880 | 5 | #984 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hyrum a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hyrum has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hyrum: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hyrum, and how old are they?
2,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 3,406 Americans ever recorded as Hyrum. The median Hyrum alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,638 people named Hyrum (2 women and girls, 2,636 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,686 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 38 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 179 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 348 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 974 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Hyrum born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 14 | #337 | 30.4× |
| Idaho | 7 | #351 | 14.4× |
Where Hyrum is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hyrum is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 30.4 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 Hyrum 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 17,928 babies since 1880, Hyrum is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 136 babies (24%), again the second most given.
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 Hyrum and names like it
- Compare Hyrum and HiramBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHyrum peaked in 2007.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hyrum since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Hyrum.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hyrum alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.