MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Haim mean?
Sanskrit haima can mean “golden” when derived from heman, “gold”. A separate derivation from hima, “snow or cold”, gives “wintry”, so the same written form has two lexical histories.
Pronunciation
IAST: haima
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हैम
Letter-by-letter: haima
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Haim in Indian usage
12,730 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 3,082 records (24.2%).
- Recorded as male: 9,648 records (75.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 976 |
| 1950s | 1,434 |
| 1960s | 2,063 |
| 1970s | 3,490 |
| 1980s | 3,463 |
| 1990s | 975 |
| Other decades | 329 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 9,266 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,633 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 749 |
| Assam | 219 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 196 |
| Meghalaya | 152 |
| Bihar | 122 |
| Other states | 393 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, haima, p. 1304,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.