Hyman

At the 2020 census, 10,708 Americans bore the surname Hyman — 3,293rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,900.

By the numbers

People: 10,708
Rank: 3,293rd
How common: 1 in 27,900
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew, from a patronymic

Anglicisation of Hyam, from Hebrew חַיִּים (“life”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hyman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 59.0%
Black, not Hispanic 33.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hyman

Dorothy Hyman (born 1941)British athlete
Dick Hyman (born 1927)American jazz pianist and composer
Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995)American rhythm-and-blues singer
Flo Hyman (1954–1986)American volleyball player
Misty Hyman (born 1979)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
Zach Hyman (born 1992)Canadian ice hockey player
Earle Hyman (1926–2017)American actor
Raoul Hyman (born 1996)South African racing driver

People named Hyman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Hyman has been given to 5,858 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1916. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.