Hayyim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vida
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/aʝʝim/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Hayyim is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. In Israel it is the 12th most common given name.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 240as חיים(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 330as חיים
- RORomania≈1 in 590as חיים
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hayyim itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 242 (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named חיים, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est., as חיים
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled חיים in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, RO Romania and 3 more and 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)Vida
Cited for this meaning 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hayyim 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 592 | — | חיים | 7 |
| IL Israel | #12 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 242 | 7.3K | חיים | 83 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | חיים | 9 |
| US United States | — | 8,326as Chaim | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Chaim | 273 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 333 | — | חיים | 1 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | חיים | 4 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | חיים | 3 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hayyim mean, and where does it come from?
- Vida Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- What are other forms of the name Hayyim?
- In the etymology graph, Haim, Chaim and Hayim are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hayyim?
- In Spanish /aʝʝim/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Hayyim a male or female name?
- Hayyim 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 Hayyim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named חיים in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hayyim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,326 people named Chaim in 2020, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is Hayyim compared with other names?
- In Israel, Hayyim is the 12th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hayyim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hayyimThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hayyim” — the 12th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.