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Avraham

#1,034 in 2025Boys' name

Multitude, through אַבְרָהָם

Avraham has been given to 4,992 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #1,034 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 220 recorded.

Babies named Avraham, 2025

1 in 15,500

Avraham over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avraham: meaning, origin, and history

Multitude, through אַבְרָהָם

Hebrew

What Avraham means

Avraham belongs to the name family reached through Avraham → אַבְרָהָם. Its meaning is “multitude”.

Origin, language, and formation

Avraham is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Avraham comes through Hebrew אַבְרָהָם.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include אַבְרָהָם.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,992 boys were recorded with the name Avraham between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 220 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,007 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,046 in 2020 to #1,034 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,288 in 2015 to #1,034 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Avraham?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,500
214 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,980
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,034
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,739 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avraham sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,739 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avraham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avrahams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avraham was born before 2011 — so the typical Avraham is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,992
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (1,473).

Is Avraham rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−21
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+12
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+254
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.55×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.3%
Peak was 2024 (220)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,007
2023

Spellings of Avraham

Avraham is not the most common spelling — Abraham is, with 57.9% against Avraham's 2.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Avraham is used

Across 2016–2025, Avraham was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 662 boys, against 1 in 3,984 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

1151 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 662
  2. 2New York1 in 1,149
  3. 3Maryland1 in 5,882
  4. 4Florida1 in 11,111
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6California1 in 33,333
  7. 7Michigan1 in 33,333
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Avraham around the world

Where Avraham ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    1987–2025
    #2,487
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Avraham

People whose public names include Avraham, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Avraham in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Avraham. Linked forms have their own page here.

AbelAbramAbrahamAbele

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Avraham by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,034
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 12
Best rank ever
#1,007
2023
Peak year
2024
220 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,992
Count in 2025
214

Names similar to Avraham

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AvrohomBrighamAvrohamBeckhamAvramAvrumArhamGauthamPrathamHishamHaithamHaythamJothamShubhamAvrahomLathamAvrumyAbrahamSohamAdhamGrahamAvryAvrumiGresham

Names with a curve like Avraham

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Avraham, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YitzchokShimonShlomoShmuelYaakovTzviYisroelJerichoEliyahuTorinMikaelIsmail

Sibling names for Avraham

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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