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Around the world, Chayim (חיים , Chayim , Шайим ) is a rare primarily masculine, but scarcely female given name. The first name Chayim is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare predominantly male, but scarcely feminine name, Kazakhstan, where it is a very rare gender-neutral name, and the United States, where it is a very rare boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in Israel, India, and the United States. Very seldom, Chayim is the last name as well as the forename.
Chayim is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Seraph , the fictional character in DC Universe.