Ibrahim
- Pronunciation
- [I-bra-him]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Arabic Form Of Abraham (Father Of Many)
- Origin
- Arabic
About the Name Ibrahim
Ibrahim is the Arabic form of Abraham, descending from the Hebrew Avraham meaning "father of many" or "father of multitudes" (see separate entry on Abraham). The biblical/Quranic patriarch Abraham/Ibrahim is considered one of the foundational figures of all three Abrahamic religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — and is in Islamic tradition specifically the second-most-important prophet after Muhammad.
Notable bearers include the iconic Senegalese-American basketball star Ibrahim Diakite; American football player Ibrahim Karim Campbell; and the contemporary Egyptian president Ibrahim Pasha (the historical Ottoman Egyptian general). The name has been continuously used across Muslim naming traditions for over a millennium.
Ibrahim's American climb has been substantial: the name climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 1990 to the US top 300 boys' rank by 2014 and the top 300 since. The name has been driven primarily by Muslim-American immigration (Arabic-, Turkish-, Bosnian-, Albanian-, and Pakistani-American naming). The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the layered Hebrew-Arabic-Islamic-religious pedigree (one of the most-revered names across all three Abrahamic religions), the in-built distinctive patriarchal religious anchor, and the popular three-syllable structure. Three flowing syllables, soft consonants, and tonal warmth distinctive to Arabic-derived naming. The name reads as both classical-religious and contemporary American. Common nicknames Ibi (the dominant warm short form, casual and warm), Ibo, Brahim (back-end shortening), and the rare Bra each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings Ibrahim, Ebrahim, and Ibraheem have their own SSA tracking. International forms include Abraham (English/Spanish), Avram (Hebrew alternate), Avraham (Hebrew original), Ibrahima (Senegalese), and the original Arabic Ibrāhīm.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Ibrahim
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Ibrahim by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 939 boys named Ibrahim (boy rank #351 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Ibrahim Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Ibrahim the strongest states are New York, Minnesota, New Jersey.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | #163 | 1,139 |
| 2 | Minnesota | #208 | 294 |
| 3 | New Jersey | #244 | 355 |
| 4 | Virginia | #258 | 315 |
| 5 | Illinois | #267 | 436 |
| 6 | Michigan | #273 | 351 |
| 7 | Maryland | #298 | 192 |
| 8 | Connecticut | #319 | 93 |
| 9 | Ohio | #342 | 319 |
| 10 | Washington | #387 | 179 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Ibrahim in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Ibrahim against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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