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Bram

#2,422 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Abraham

Bram has been given to 1,537 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #2,422 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Bram, 2025

1 in 59,200

Bram over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bram: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Abraham

Hebrew

What Bram means

Bram is a short form of Abraham.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bram → Abraham. The family’s meaning is “father of + multitude of”, recorded in English with the source elements אַב and הֲמוֹן.

Origin, language, and formation

Bram is used in English, Dutch and Norman. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abraham and Âbréhan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Bram is pronounced /brɑm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,537 boys were recorded with the name Bram between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 72 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,995 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,208 in 2020 to #2,422 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,569 in 2015 to #2,422 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 Bram?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,422
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bram 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bram. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bram was born before 2009 — so the typical Bram is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,532
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (495).

Is Bram 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
+543
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+786
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+147
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.8%
Peak was 2016 (72)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,995
2016

Spellings of Bram

Bram is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 35.4% against Bram's 0.05%.

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 Bram is used

Across 2016–2025, Bram was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 101,739 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 25,000
  2. 2Utah1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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.

Bram around the world

Where Bram 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
    1996–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    2006–2006
    #4,530
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Bram by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,422
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 786
Best rank ever
#1,995
2016
Peak year
2016
72 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,537
Count in 2025
56

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Sibling names for Bram

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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