Avrum
Masculine · “father of many”
Avrum is Abraham after Yiddish has been through it. Eastern European Jewish speech shortened the vowels and moved the stress, and what came out is a name that sounds nothing like the English form while being exactly the same one.
How old is the name Avrum?
Avrum first appears in US birth records in 1933 — 92 years ago. The typical Avrum is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Avrum are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avrum most popular?
Avrum peaked in 2023, reaching #2737 nationally. Today it ranks #2884, 147 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Avraham to Avrum
The story of Avrum
Abraham is the shared patriarch of three religions, and the name has been in continuous Jewish use for as long as there have been records of Jewish names. Yiddish reshaped it as it reshaped the whole stock — vowels shifted, endings worn down — giving Avrum, Avrom and Avrohom, which are all one name written as different communities say it. These forms reached the United States with Ashkenazi emigration and remain the everyday ones in Hasidic and yeshivish communities, where the English Abraham is the form used on official paperwork and rarely anywhere else.
Meaning
father of many
Hebrew Avraham is read in Genesis itself as 'father of a multitude', from av, 'father', with a second element the text ties to hamon, 'multitude'. Scholars generally treat that as wordplay on the older Avram, 'exalted father'. Avrum is the Yiddish pronunciation and carries the same name unchanged.
How the name formed
- Avraham
- Avrom
- Avrum
Related forms: Avraham · Abraham · Avrohom · Ibrahim
Pronouncing Avrum
AHV-rum
Two syllables, stress on the first, the second vowel reduced. Israeli Hebrew says av-ra-HAM, with three syllables and the stress at the end, which is a noticeably different name by ear.
Nicknames for Avrum
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1933
- Most boys named
- 202347 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2737reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +10.3%43 in 2025, from 39
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Avrum in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Avraham in Hebrew — related form
- Abraham in English — same name
- Avrohom in Yiddish — spelling variant
- Ibrahim in Arabic — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Avrums among us
people named Avrum are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 39,723 born in 2025 was named Avrum
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Gershon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avrum's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gershon climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gershon's path sketches the road Avrum is walking now.
Avrum sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Avrum is headed
Avrum should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Avrum beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avrum in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Avi and Abe are ready short forms in two languages, one for each setting.
- Rooted in a living tradition rather than borrowed from one.
- Five letters and no consonant clusters English struggles with.
- Abraham is the form on most official paperwork, so the child will carry two names in practice.
- Avrum, Avrom and Avrohom all circulate and belong to slightly different communities.
- It is strongly identified with Hasidic and yeshivish families, which is either the point or something to weigh.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avrums are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Avrum are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Avrum in 2025?
- Avrum ranks #2884 among US boy names in 2025, with 43 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avrum?
- About 1 in every 39,723 US boys born in 2025 was named Avrum — 43 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avrum with classmates?
- Avrum will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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