boys:
5.9k births since 1880
#1543 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1880
#3548 (54th percentile)
The name Hyman is the #3,548 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,858 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 54.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,543 (66.3% percentile) for all time with 5,858 births since 1880.
Hyman has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Hyman is available in 95 out of the 135 years between 1880 and 2014. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Hyman reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 53.5% percentile (ranked #234) with 411 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 568 births per million (ranked 39.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hyman".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Hyman. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Hyman is pronounced as HAI-muhn, which has 2 syllables.
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