Life or living
Derived from the Hebrew word for 'life,' it is the feminine form of the root that also gives us the name Chaim. In Jewish tradition, it represents the vital force and is sometimes added to a person's name during illness to encourage recovery.
Less common today
Chayah isn't in the latest US Top 1000. It last peaked at #10,771 in 2023.
US births per 5-year period, 1990–present (SSA data).
Prominent figure in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement
Award-winning Israeli composer and professor
Hebrew writer better known by the pen name Mendele Mocher Sforim
The protagonist who travels back in time to 1942 Poland · The Devil's Arithmetic
