Chaim
Last seen for girls in 1985 at #9,307 · #666 for boys in 2025, 411 births
Given to boys >99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 462 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 12,072since 1942
Chaim over time
Rank among boys' names. Chaim has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #666 | 411 | |
| 2024 | — | #682 | 399 | |
| 2023 | — | #626 | 444 | |
| 2022 | — | #607 | 462 | |
| 2021 | — | #694 | 383 | |
| 2020 | — | #673 | 386 | |
| 2019 | — | #699 | 360 | |
| 2018 | — | #751 | 314 | |
| 2017 | — | #705 | 347 | |
| 2016 | — | #748 | 326 | |
| 2015 | — | #714 | 347 | |
| 2014 | — | #790 | 291 | |
| 2013 | — | #700 | 341 | |
| 2012 | — | #701 | 339 | |
| 2011 | — | #757 | 299 | |
| 2010 | — | #859 | 245 | |
| 2009 | — | #816 | 270 | |
| 2008 | — | #804 | 273 | |
| 2007 | — | #786 | 275 | |
| 2006 | — | #847 | 237 | |
| 2005 | — | #802 | 239 | |
| 2004 | — | #835 | 213 | |
| 2003 | — | #822 | 213 | |
| 2002 | — | #886 | 184 | |
| 2001 | — | #902 | 174 | |
| 2000 | — | #869 | 182 | |
| 1999 | — | #844 | 179 | |
| 1998 | — | #801 | 191 | |
| 1997 | — | #836 | 172 | |
| 1996 | — | #856 | 162 | |
| 1995 | — | #970 | 130 | |
| 1994 | — | #917 | 142 | |
| 1993 | — | #874 | 148 | |
| 1992 | — | #931 | 131 | |
| 1991 | — | #939 | 127 | |
| 1990 | — | #893 | 132 | |
| 1989 | — | #830 | 144 | |
| 1988 | — | #809 | 137 | |
| 1987 | — | #875 | 114 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,003 | 85 | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #866 | 109 |
| 1984 | — | #818 | 114 | |
| 1983 | — | #889 | 98 | |
| 1982 | — | #927 | 93 | |
| 1981 | — | #870 | 104 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,089 | 69 | |
| 1979 | — | #875 | 99 | |
| 1978 | — | #869 | 98 | |
| 1977 | — | #937 | 82 | |
| 1976 | — | #905 | 84 | |
| 1975 | — | #938 | 76 | |
| 1974 | — | #977 | 70 | |
| 1973 | — | #948 | 72 | |
| 1972 | — | #900 | 79 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,289 | 42 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,117 | 54 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,252 | 40 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,183 | 41 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,411 | 29 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,237 | 37 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,559 | 25 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,615 | 24 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,585 | 25 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,515 | 27 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,097 | 51 | |
| 1960 | — | #964 | 62 | |
| 1959 | — | #975 | 62 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,006 | 57 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,063 | 51 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,257 | 37 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,419 | 29 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,525 | 25 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,357 | 31 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,547 | 24 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,643 | 21 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,815 | 17 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,820 | 17 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,326 | 11 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,671 | 9 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,143 | 12 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Chaim! It came in at #2,940, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1945, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Chaim is popular in 1959
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#279 · 1 in 3,066
Best ever in a state: #53 in New Jersey, 2023.
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| New York | #279 | 59 | 1 in 3,066 |
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See more about Chaim
- 16 spots since 2024 (#682 → #666)
- 7 spots since 2020 (#673 → #666)
- 48 spots since 2015 (#714 → #666)
- Biggest jump: 389 spots in 1972 (#1,289 → #900)
- Biggest drop: 214 spots in 1980 (#875 → #1,089)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 2022 at #607 (462 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 54 yrs · run 1987–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,779 boys born in 2022 were named Chaim (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,156 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 26.6% of all boys named Chaim (3,209) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 66 | #1,820 (1949) | #2,667 |
| 1950s | 354 | #975 (1959) | #1,361 |
| 1960s | 361 | #964 (1960) | #1,342 |
| 1970s | 756 | #869 (1978) | #976 |
| 1980s | 1,067 | #809 (1988) | #898 |
| 1990s | 1,514 | #801 (1998) | #886 |
| 2000s | 2,260 | #786 (2007) | #837 |
| 2010s | 3,209 | #699 (2019) | #742 |
| 2020s | 2,485 | #607 (2022) | #658 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Chaim in 1959
Top boys' names in 1959
More about 1959
boys
2,134,518 boys got a published name in 1959; 1 in 34,428 of them was named Chaim, which outranked 78.7% of the 4,572 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).