Hiram
About 14,456 American babies have been named Hiram since 1880, most of them around 1920. In 2025 it ranked 1,634th. About 7,100 Hirams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hiram
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,456
- Estimated living today
- 7,100
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 397th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,634th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Hirams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,456 babies given the name since 1880, about 7,100 are alive — 49 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 1,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Biblical Hebrew חִירָם (“high-born”), possibly from Phoenician, or a shortened form of אֲחִירָם (“brother of the exalted”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hirams
- Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956)American academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician
- Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840–1916)American-born inventor
- Hiram I (999 BC–934 BC)Phoenician king
- Hiram Johnson (1866–1945)California governor (1911-17) and senator
- Hiram Fong (1906–2004)American politician
- Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827–1901)American politician
- Hiram Mier (born 1989)Mexican footballer
- Hiram Tuttle (1882–1956)American equestrian
People named Hiram with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hiram is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hiram is most concentrated in Kentucky (3.5×), Georgia (3.2×), Mississippi (2.6×), Texas (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Hiram peaked:
Hiram elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Hiram | 80 | 1,706th |
| England and Wales boys | Hiram | 14 | 2,425th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Hiram against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.