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Ebrahim

#3,975 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ibrahim

Ebrahim has been given to 616 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #3,975 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Ebrahim, 2025

1 in 123,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ebrahim: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ibrahim

Arabic

What Ebrahim means

Ebrahim is a form of Ibrahim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Ebrahim is used in Maguindanao. Its origins include Arabic.

Ebrahim comes through Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم and Indonesian prophet.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ibrahim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 616 boys were recorded with the name Ebrahim between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,177 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,581 in 2020 to #3,975 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,328 in 2015 to #3,975 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 Ebrahim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,975
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ebrahim 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ebrahim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ebrahims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ebrahim was born before 2014 — so the typical Ebrahim is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
616
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (227).

Is Ebrahim 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
−258
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+606
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+353
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2016 (36)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,177
2016

Spellings of Ebrahim

Ebrahim is not the most common spelling — Abraham is, with 80.7% against Ebrahim's 0.48%.

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 Ebrahim is used

Across 1910–2025, Ebrahim was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 460,606 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Ebrahim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ebrahim around the world

Where Ebrahim 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
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • France
    1982–2024
    #5,107
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–1999
    #539
    in 1999

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.

Ebrahim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,975
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 606
Best rank ever
#3,177
2016
Peak year
2016
36 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
616
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Ebrahim

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

AbrahimEbrimaJoachimIbrohimElohimEbraheemHashimBrahimRaahimSeraphimRahimFahimNahimIbrahimAbdulrahimShahimAbdirahimAchimEbrahimaHaashimAbdurrahimJahimSahimRashim

Sibling names for Ebrahim

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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