Ibrahima
Masculine · “father of many”
Ibrahima is Abraham as West Africa says it. The final a is the marker: Senegalese, Guinean and Malian families add it to a set of Arabic names, and it identifies where the name has been on its way here.
How old is the name Ibrahima?
Ibrahima first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Ibrahima alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,100 people named Ibrahima are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ibrahima most popular?
Ibrahima peaked in 2002, reaching #2046 nationally. Today it ranks #2833, 787 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
Where it comes from
From Avraham to Ibrahima
The story of Ibrahima
Abraham is the shared patriarch of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the Arabic Ibrahim spread with Islam across North and West Africa. Wolof, Fula and Mandinka speakers reshaped a set of Arabic names by adding a final vowel — Ibrahima, Mamadou from Muhammad, Ousmane from Uthman, Moussa from Musa — and those forms are now the standard ones across Senegal, Guinea, Mali and the Gambia. Ibrahima reaches United States records with families from exactly that region, and the ending is a reliable marker of it.
Meaning
father of many
Hebrew Avraham is read in Genesis itself as 'father of a multitude', from av, 'father', and a second element the text connects to hamon, 'multitude'. Scholars generally treat that as a wordplay on an older name, Avram, 'exalted father'. Arabic Ibrahim carries the name across; the final a in Ibrahima is a West African adaptation and does not change the meaning.
How the name formed
- Avraham
- Ibrahim
- Ibrahima
Related forms: Ibrahim · Abraham · Avraham · İbrahim
Pronouncing Ibrahima
ee-brah-HEE-mah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. The h is fully sounded. English speakers usually reduce it to ib-ra-HEE-ma or drop the middle h, which flattens the name noticeably.
Nicknames for Ibrahima
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
- 1992
- Most boys named
- 200253 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2046reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%44 in 2025, from 44
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.
Ibrahima in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ibrahim in Arabic — related form
- Abraham in English — same name
- Avraham in Hebrew — same name
- İbrahim in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Ohio, Georgia.
Ibrahimas among us
people named Ibrahima are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 38,820 born in 2025 was named Ibrahima
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 Kerri test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ibrahima's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kerri climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kerri's path sketches the road Ibrahima is walking now.
Ibrahima 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 Ibrahima is headed
Ibrahima 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.
Ibrahima beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ibrahima in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Recognized across Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions alike, which few names manage.
- Ibou and Ibra are ready short forms already in wide use in West Africa and France.
- The ending marks its West African home clearly, which many families choose it precisely for.
- Four syllables is long, and it will be shortened by almost everyone outside the family.
- Ibrahima, Ibrahim and Abraham are the same name and look unrelated on paper.
- The middle h is easily lost by English speakers, which changes the rhythm.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ibrahimas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Ibrahima are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ibrahima in 2025?
- Ibrahima ranks #2833 among US boy names in 2025, with 44 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ibrahima?
- About 1 in every 38,820 US boys born in 2025 was named Ibrahima — 44 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ibrahima with classmates?
- Ibrahima will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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