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Ebrima

#12,544 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ibrahim

Ebrima has been given to 265 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #12,544 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Ebrima, 2025

1 in 663,000

Ebrima over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ebrima: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ibrahim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ebrima means

Ebrima is a form of Ibrahim.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ebrima is used in Western African.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ibrahim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 265 boys were recorded with the name Ebrima between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2008; its best national rank was #5,369 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,661 in 2020 to #12,544 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 Ebrima?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,544
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ebrima 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ebrima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ebrimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ebrima was born before 2008 — so the typical Ebrima is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
265
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Choose a decade

2000s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Ebrima 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
−5,602
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,883
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
31.3%
Peak was 2008 (16)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,369
2005

Spellings of Ebrima

Ebrima is not the most common spelling — Erica is, with 55.7% against Ebrima's 14.4%.

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 Ebrima is used

Across 1910–2025, Ebrima was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,258 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Ebrima has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ebrima around the world

Where Ebrima 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
    1999–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ebrima by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,544
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,883
Best rank ever
#5,369
2005
Peak year
2008
16 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
265
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ebrima

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

EbrahimShloimaEbrahimaEbraheemChimaNimaIbrahimaFatimaDimaSakimaBarimaNeima

Sibling names for Ebrima

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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