Hymen

Where Hymen comes from

Hymen hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1817
    Hymen Lipman born
    American inventor
  2. 1911
    First appearance
    #982 among boys, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1913
    Peak, #950
    27 babies named Hymen — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1923
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,467.
  5. 1925
    Hymen Marx born
    U.S. herpetologist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hymen Lipman · American inventor, 1817–1893
  • Hymen Marx · U.S. herpetologist, 1925–2007

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.