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Hiram (M)>

Hiram (male)

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Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

English in Puritan times, now mainly US; from The King of Tyre: OT 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1&2 Chronicles.

ONC suggests that it might be Phoenician but if it is Hebrew it might come from "brother of the exalted".