Haim
From the Hebrew for "life". In Poland it barely registers: around 126 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Haim Pronunciation
Haim is pronounced KHAH-eem (/ˈxaim/).
What Haim means
Where Haim comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Haim comes from the Hebrew word chaim, meaning "life." In Hebrew the word is plural in form, so it reads closer to "lives" than to a single life. That old grammar stayed with the name. Jewish tradition keeps the same word in the toast l'chaim, "to life," raised at weddings and celebrations.
Men who carried the name marked the last century. Chaim Weizmann, a chemist, became the first president of Israel in 1949. Chaim Nachman Bialik wrote in Hebrew and helped bring the language back into everyday speech. Each bore "life" as his first name.
Haim keeps no diminutives. In Polish records it has no feminine form.
On a Polish class register the name is rare, and a teacher reading it aloud meets a word that means życie, life.
How many people are named Haim
1 in 169414 men in Poland is named Haim. 126 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2975 among male names.
Haim as a middle name
Haim is a first name for 126 men in Poland and a middle name for another 150, a 46/54 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 571st, between Dyonizy (150) and Iwan (150).
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#569 Sylwiusz151
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#570 Dyonizy150
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#571 Haim150
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#572 Iwan150
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#573 Arturo149