Hyman
Hyman reached its high-water mark in 1916 at number 253, and has been recorded 5,858 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2014. About 440 Hymans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hyman
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,858
- Estimated living today
- 440
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 253rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Hymans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,858 babies given the name since 1880, about 440 are alive — 8 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 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
Anglicisation of Hyam, from Hebrew חַיִּים (“life”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hymans
- Hyman G. Rickover (1900–1986)United States admiral; Father of the Nuclear Navy
- Hyman Minsky (1919–1996)American economist
- Hyman Bass (born 1932)American mathematician
People named Hyman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hyman is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hyman is most concentrated in New York (9.1×), Massachusetts (3.8×), New Jersey (1.3×), Illinois (1.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Hyman peaked:
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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.