Chaîm

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chaîm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew חַיִּים (“life”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 75K
  • SESweden1 in 182K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

8,326 people, 2020

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chaim in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Hebrew חַיִּים (“life”).

Sources 3

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chaîm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Chaîm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8,3261 in 40K8.3KChaim28
NL Netherlands2301 in 75K230—1
PL Poland1641 in 233K164——
SE Sweden561 in 182K56——
BR Brazil531 in 4M920——
GY Guyana21 in 375K2——

8,326 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chaîm is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Хаим, Гаим, Хаїм, Хаім, Khaim

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chaîm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chaîm mean, and where does it come from?
From Hebrew חַיִּים (“life”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios and 1 other source.
Is Chaîm a male or female name?
Chaîm is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Chaîm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Chaîm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chaim.
Where is Chaîm most common?
Chaîm is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Chaîm?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,326 people named Chaîm in 2020, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chaîm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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