Hyrum
Hyrum is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. Its best rank was 664th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 490.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2007123 births
- Best rank
- #664in 1883
- Since 1880
- 3,373people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,373 boys have been named Hyrum in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 123 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 29%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hyrum | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 57 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 117 | |
| 1920s | 124 | |
| 1930s | 69 | |
| 1940s | 37 | |
| 1950s | 42 | |
| 1960s | 29 | |
| 1970s | 149 | |
| 1980s | 208 | |
| 1990s | 333 | |
| 2000s | 969 | |
| 2010s | 952 | |
| 2020s | 276 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Hyrum was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Hyrum
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Simeonpeak 2019
- Isaacpeak 2007
- Jonaspeak 2008
- Ephraimpeak 2017
- Issacpeak 2008
- Abrampeak 2016
- Ansonpeak 2016
- Ebenpeak 2012
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.