Chaim

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Chaim: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Chaim: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #704, and it stood at #981 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#704highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Boys

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#704
1997	#1052
1998	#780
1999	#1130
2000	#1241
2001	#814
2002	#1033
2003	#912
2004	#1160
2005	#891
2006	#939
2007	#848
2008	#1124
2009	#1175
2010	#774
2011	#907
2012	#998
2013	#910
2014	#1012
2015	#1074
2016	#1123
2017	#888
2018	#810
2019	#1506
2020	#796
2021	#771
2022	#771
2023	#827
2024	#981

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #704 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #704 among boys in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #981 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Chaim by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Chaim in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	67	4 of 10	17
2000s	209	10 of 10	21
2010s	299	10 of 10	30
2020sbusiest	194	5 of 10	39

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 39 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Chaim appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #704 in England and Wales in 1996.

Chaim's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#981	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#827	39	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#771	42	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#771	43	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#796	39	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#810	39	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#888	35	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1123	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1074	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1012	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#910	32	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#998	28	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#907	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#774	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1175	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1124	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#848	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#939	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#891	25	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1160	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#912	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1033	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#814	21	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1241	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1130	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#780	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1052	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#704	22	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #704, first reached in 1996.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 43 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#981position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
43births registered in its largest year, 202125 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Arooj · #703, 27y
Humayra · #702, 29y
Madiha · #702, 29y
Haleemah · #701, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Jedd · #704, 23y
Arooj · #703, 27y
Fayth · #705, 20y
Kelly-Ann · #705, 11y

Chaim was ranked #704 in England and Wales · Boys in 1996. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Chaim and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Chaim without appearing here.

Chaim moved ahead of

Gary Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1506 and #1253 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #796 and #2076.
Murray Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1506 and #1316 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #796 and #1825.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1160 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #891 and #1851.
Ross Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1506 and #894 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #796 and #1723.

Moved ahead of Chaim

Carter Compare
In 1996 they stood at #704 and #755 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1052 and #476.
Denis Compare
In 1998 they stood at #780 and #924 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1130 and #621.
Ollie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #780 and #924 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1130 and #655.
Teddy Compare
In 1996 they stood at #704 and #755 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1052 and #578.

Moved the same way as Chaim

Shannon Compare
Between 1996 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Chaim went from #704 to #1506 and Shannon from #1168 to #4702.
Kim Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Chaim went from #704 to #1074 and Kim from #1168 to #4747.
Kristoffer Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Chaim went from #704 to #1074 and Kristoffer from #2357 to #3373.
Tayla Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Chaim went from #704 to #1074 and Tayla from #1458 to #4747.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #704 in England and Wales in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Chaim

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Chaim by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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