Boy · Phoenician, through Hebrew
Hiram
Say it: HY-rum
Meaning
Hebrew, the king of Tyre who helped Solomon; possibly short for Ahiram 'my brother is exalted'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Common in 18th- and 19th-century America.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 13,949 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1881, about 1 in 1,100 boys
- 106 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
| Hebrew | Hiram |
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Famous bearers
- Hiram Bingham, explorer
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Colonial records of the Americas
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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