Ibrahim
Masculine · “father of many”
Ibrahim is the Arabic form of Abraham, and it carries one of the oldest continuously used names on earth into a modern American classroom. It belongs to a prophet honored by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike — the fourteenth chapter of the Quran bears the name as its title. In the mouth it moves in three easy beats, ending on that long, open -heem.
How old is the name Ibrahim?
Ibrahim first appears in US birth records in 1954 — 71 years ago. The typical Ibrahim is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 17,500 people named Ibrahim are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ibrahim most popular?
Ibrahim peaked in 2025, reaching #351 nationally. Today it ranks #351, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Ibrahim appears on these lists:
- France's favorites still rare in America
- Canadian favorites the US overlooks
- British invasion: UK favorites still rare in the US
- Names with only one spelling
- Arabic names in American use
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Works in British, French and Arabic families too:
Where it comes from
From Abram to Ibrahim
The story of Ibrahim
The name begins in Hebrew as Avraham, the patriarch of Genesis, and spread outward with scripture: Abraam in the Greek Old Testament, Abraham in Latin and then in every European language, Ibrāhīm in Arabic. Islam gave the Arabic form enormous reach — Ibrahim is counted among the prophets, the Quran devotes a sura to him, and the name followed Arabic across North Africa, into Turkey and Persia, down the Swahili coast, through West Africa and out to Indonesia and Malaysia. That is why one spelling is legible from Dakar to Jakarta. In the United States it arrived with families from all of those places, which is also why it charts today in France, England and Wales, and Canada.
Meaningscholars disagree
father of many, father of nations
The book of Genesis itself glosses Abraham as "father of a multitude of nations", and that reading has traveled with the name for three thousand years. Linguists are less settled: the earlier form Abram reads clearly as "exalted father", while the -ham element in Abraham has no clean Hebrew source, so the biblical gloss may be interpretation rather than etymology. Ibrahim is the Arabic rendering of that same name, borrowed rather than built from Arabic roots.
How the name formed
- Abram
- Avraham
- Abraham
- Ibrāhīm
- Ibrahim
Related forms: İbrahim · Ebrahim · Avraham · Abraham · Brahim · Ibrahim
Pronouncing Ibrahim
ib-rah-HEEM
Arabic and Turkish speakers place the weight on the final syllable; many American speakers say IB-ra-heem with the stress up front. Both are heard, and both are correct in their own setting.
Nicknames for Ibrahim
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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
- 1954
- Most boys named
- 2025939 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #351reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +1.7%939 in 2025, from 923
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.
Ibrahim in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- İbrahim in Turkish — spelling variant
- Ebrahim in Persian — spelling variant
- Avraham in Hebrew — related form
- Abraham in English — related form
- Brahim in Moroccan Arabic — related form
- Ibrahim in Indonesian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Texas. INSEE rounds every published count to the nearest five for statistical confidentiality; the ranks are calculated from the exact figures. International figures from INSEE, Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada. Sources
Ibrahims among us
people named Ibrahim are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 1,819 born in 2025 was named Ibrahim
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 Guillermo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ibrahim's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Guillermo climbed just as high around 1996, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Guillermo's path sketches the road Ibrahim is walking now.
Ibrahim is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ibrahim is headed
Ibrahim 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.
Ibrahim beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ibrahim in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One spelling, recognized across Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Bosnian, Swahili, Hausa, Indonesian and Malay — a rare thing for a name of this length.
- Part of a name line documented for roughly three thousand years, with no gap in use.
- Also on the birth charts in France, England and Wales, and Canada, so it travels without translation.
- Established short forms already in use: Ibi, Ibby, Brahim.
- Its English cousin Abraham is familiar to nearly everyone, which gives listeners a foothold.
- Spelling will need repeating. Ibraheem, Ibrahem and Ebrahim are all real, and people who have met one of those may default to it.
- Stress placement differs between English and Arabic habits, so he may hear his own name pronounced two ways in a single day — at home one way, at school another.
- In most American schools he will be the only Ibrahim in the building. That means no last-initial problem, and also that he will be the one introducing the name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ibrahims are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 17,500 people named Ibrahim are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ibrahim in 2025?
- Ibrahim ranks #351 among US boy names in 2025, with 939 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ibrahim?
- About 1 in every 1,819 US boys born in 2025 was named Ibrahim — 939 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ibrahim with classmates?
- Ibrahim will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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