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Brahim

#4,151 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Ibrahim

Brahim has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #4,151 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Brahim, 2025

1 in 133,000

Brahim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brahim: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Ibrahim

Arabic

What Brahim means

Brahim is a short form of Ibrahim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Brahim → Ibrahim → إِبْرَاهِيم → אַבְרָהָם → אַבְרָהָם. The family’s meaning is “multitude”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements hamón.

Origin, language, and formation

Brahim is used in Albanian and French. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ibrahim.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Brahim is pronounced /bʁa.im/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 152 boys were recorded with the name Brahim between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,806 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,703 in 2020 to #4,151 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 Brahim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,151
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brahim 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brahim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brahims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brahim was born before 2020 — so the typical Brahim is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
152
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Choose a decade

2020s — 50.7% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Brahim 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
−345
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,552
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
86.2%
Peak was 2024 (29)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,806
2024

Spellings of Brahim

Brahim is not the most common spelling — Abraham is, with 52.3% against Brahim's 0.08%.

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 Brahim is used

Across 1910–2025, Brahim was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,245,885 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Brahim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brahim around the world

Where Brahim 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
    2003–2003
    #3,467
    in 2003
  • France
    1927–2025
    #734
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Brahim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,151
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,552
Best rank ever
#3,806
2024
Peak year
2024
29 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Brahim

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

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Sibling names for Brahim

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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