Meaning not yet researched.
Chaim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 411 in 2025. Its best rank was #607 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #607 in 2022; #666 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chaim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#666 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #607.
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Chaim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 411 boys in 2025. Peak: #607 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 462 (2022).
In 2025, 411 US boys were named Chaim, making it the 666th most common boys’ name of the year, up 16 places from #682 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 399 boys named Chaim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #607, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 462. For comparison, it was #715 in 2015 and #1,828 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chaim in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 7 babies. In all, 12,078 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,209 babies named Chaim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,832 US boys were named Chaim; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 462. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,156 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chaim ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #62 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Haim, Chayim and Kham are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Haim (152), Chayim (134), Kham (92).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Chaim in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 260 | #62 | #110 |
| New Jersey | 117 | #76 | #94 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,152 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,304 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,888 | #1,192 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 411 | #666 |
| 2024 | — | — | 399 | #682 |
| 2023 | — | — | 444 | #626 |
| 2022 | — | — | 462 | #607 |
| 2021 | — | — | 383 | #694 |
| 2020 | — | — | 386 | #673 |
| 2019 | — | — | 360 | #699 |
| 2018 | — | — | 314 | #751 |
| 2017 | — | — | 347 | #706 |
| 2016 | — | — | 326 | #749 |
| 2015 | — | — | 347 | #715 |
| 2014 | — | — | 291 | #790 |
| 2013 | — | — | 341 | #700 |
| 2012 | — | — | 339 | #701 |
| 2011 | — | — | 299 | #757 |
| 2010 | — | — | 245 | #859 |
| 2009 | — | — | 270 | #818 |
| 2008 | — | — | 273 | #804 |
| 2007 | — | — | 275 | #787 |
| 2006 | — | — | 237 | #847 |
| 2005 | — | — | 239 | #803 |
| 2004 | — | — | 213 | #836 |
| 2003 | — | — | 213 | #823 |
| 2002 | — | — | 184 | #886 |
| 2001 | — | — | 174 | #902 |
| 2000 | — | — | 182 | #870 |
| 1999 | — | — | 179 | #845 |
| 1998 | — | — | 191 | #801 |
| 1997 | — | — | 172 | #836 |
| 1996 | — | — | 162 | #856 |
| 1995 | — | — | 130 | #972 |
| 1994 | — | — | 142 | #920 |
| 1993 | — | — | 148 | #876 |
| 1992 | — | — | 131 | #931 |
| 1991 | — | — | 127 | #941 |
| 1990 | — | — | 132 | #893 |
| 1989 | — | — | 144 | #830 |
| 1988 | — | — | 137 | #809 |
| 1987 | — | — | 114 | #875 |
| 1986 | — | — | 85 | #1,003 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,475 | 109 | #867 |
| 1984 | — | — | 114 | #818 |
| 1983 | — | — | 98 | #889 |
| 1982 | — | — | 93 | #927 |
| 1981 | — | — | 104 | #871 |
| 1980 | — | — | 69 | #1,090 |
| 1979 | — | — | 99 | #876 |
| 1978 | — | — | 98 | #869 |
| 1977 | — | — | 82 | #939 |
| 1976 | — | — | 84 | #906 |
| 1975 | — | — | 76 | #939 |
| 1974 | — | — | 70 | #978 |
| 1973 | — | — | 72 | #950 |
| 1972 | — | — | 79 | #901 |
| 1971 | — | — | 42 | #1,295 |
| 1970 | — | — | 54 | #1,117 |
| 1969 | — | — | 40 | #1,253 |
| 1968 | — | — | 41 | #1,191 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,413 |
| 1966 | — | — | 37 | #1,240 |
| 1965 | — | — | 25 | #1,565 |
| 1964 | — | — | 24 | #1,622 |
| 1963 | — | — | 25 | #1,594 |
| 1962 | — | — | 27 | #1,520 |
| 1961 | — | — | 51 | #1,098 |
| 1960 | — | — | 62 | #966 |
| 1959 | — | — | 62 | #977 |
| 1958 | — | — | 57 | #1,008 |
| 1957 | — | — | 51 | #1,064 |
| 1956 | — | — | 37 | #1,260 |
| 1955 | — | — | 29 | #1,422 |
| 1954 | — | — | 25 | #1,531 |
| 1953 | — | — | 31 | #1,360 |
| 1952 | — | — | 24 | #1,552 |
| 1951 | — | — | 21 | #1,650 |
| 1950 | — | — | 17 | #1,828 |
| 1949 | — | — | 17 | #1,830 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,345 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,689 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,167 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,395 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,501 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #2,972 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).