Hymen

Last seen for boys in 1931 at #3,763

Peak · boys
1913 · 27 births
Debut · boys
12 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
285
since 1911

Hymen over time

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Rank among boys' names. Hymen has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201911peak #950, 1913boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1931#3,7635
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1928#4,1515
1927#3,4517
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1925#2,9369
1924#2,64111
1923#3,4677
1922#2,24014
1921#1,82919
1920#2,05216
1919#1,57622
1918#1,25631
1917#1,58721
1916#1,64619
1915#1,45422
1914#1,01930
1913#95027
1912#1,8858
1911#98212
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First appearance
1911

The first year at least five boys were named Hymen! It came in at #982, and was given to 12 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1926, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Hymen
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1931
  • Biggest jump: 935 spots in 1913 (#1,885#950)
  • Biggest drop: 903 spots in 1912 (#982#1,885)
Rise & fade · boys
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1911
  • Peaked 1913 at #950 (27 births)
  • Births halved by 1923, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1911–1913
Share of babies · boys
1 in 18,831
  • Highest: 1 in 18,831 boys born in 1911 were named Hymen (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 207,933 boys born in 1931 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #950 in 1913, was only 1 in 18,984 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 67.4% of all boys named Hymen (192) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s192#950 (1913)#1,373
1920s88#1,829 (1921)#2,846
1930s5#3,763 (1931)#3,763

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Hymen in 1911

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#982
12 births · 1 in 18,831 boys

Top boys' names in 1911

  1. #1John13,446
  2. #2William10,593
  3. #3James9,952
  4. #4George6,586
  5. #5Robert6,526
  6. #6Joseph6,488
  7. #7Charles5,725
  8. #8Frank4,314
  9. #9Edward4,164
  10. #10Thomas3,292
  11. #982Hymen12
More about 1911

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225,970 boys got a published name in 1911; 1 in 18,831 of them was named Hymen, which outranked 50.9% of the 1,999 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Hymen
  1. #925Waverly13
  2. #925Wayman13
  3. #925Worth13
  4. #982Hymen12
  5. #982Algie12
  6. #982Angel12
  7. #982Baxter12
  8. #1,038Ann11
  9. #1,038Anson11
  10. #1,038Arno11

Tied with 55 names at #982; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1910
Risers
  1. 900Vincenzo#1,589#689
  2. 900Wyman#1,589#689
  3. 882Rodger#1,589#707
  4. 796Cedric#1,589#793
  5. 796Hughie#1,589#793
Fallers
  1. 881Bertha#859#1,740
  2. 881Arlo#859#1,740
  3. 831Shelton#556#1,387
  4. 812Guss#928#1,740
  5. 812Halley#928#1,740

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1911