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Ekrem

Boys' name

Generous; noble, through أَكْرَم

Ekrem has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Ekrem, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ekrem: meaning, origin, and history

Generous; noble, through أَكْرَم

Turkish and Arabic

What Ekrem means

Ekrem belongs to the name family reached through Ekrem → Ekrem → أَكْرَم. Its meaning is “generous; noble”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ekrem is used in French and Turkish. Its origins include Turkish and Arabic.

Ekrem comes through Turkish Ekrem.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ekrem and أَكْرَم.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Ekrem is pronounced /ɛ.kʁɛm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 boys were recorded with the name Ekrem between 2009 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2010; its best national rank was #9,966 in 2010.

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 Ekrem?

Ekrem had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ekrem 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ekrem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ekrems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ekrem was born before 2013 — so the typical Ekrem is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
77.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
45
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 77.8% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Ekrem 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (7)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,966
2010

Spellings of Ekrem

Ekrem is not the most common spelling — Efren is, with 24.5% against Ekrem's 0.13%.

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.

Ekrem around the world

Where Ekrem 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
    1997–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • France
    1975–2024
    #6,664
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Ekrem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,966
2010
Peak year
2010
7 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ekrem

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

JuremKaremJaremEphremJeremEffremKeremYuremKarremPremSuremAbremEfremRemChinemerem

Sibling names for Ekrem

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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