# Ibrahim (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ibrahim/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɪbɹəhɪm/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,907 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17,907 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14,846, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm), borrowed from Aramaic אַבְרָהָם (ʾaḇrāhām), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm). Doublet of Abraham, Abramo, Avraham, and Abrahan.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 575 | 467 |
| 2012 | 549 | 488 |
| 2013 | 631 | 451 |
| 2014 | 649 | 456 |
| 2015 | 699 | 436 |
| 2016 | 816 | 394 |
| 2017 | 815 | 390 |
| 2018 | 791 | 402 |
| 2019 | 820 | 383 |
| 2020 | 673 | 441 |
| 2021 | 664 | 456 |
| 2022 | 766 | 419 |
| 2023 | 775 | 412 |
| 2024 | 923 | 359 |
| 2025 | 939 | 351 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 567 | 114 |
| 2012 | 594 | 107 |
| 2013 | 677 | 89 |
| 2014 | 669 | 91 |
| 2015 | 674 | 96 |
| 2016 | 701 | 96 |
| 2017 | 684 | 94 |
| 2018 | 621 | 103 |
| 2019 | 653 | 94 |
| 2020 | 591 | 98 |
| 2021 | 580 | 102 |
| 2022 | 547 | 100 |
| 2023 | 624 | 83 |
| 2024 | 694 | 77 |
| 2025 | 731 | 70 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: إِبْرَاهِيم
- Chinese: 易卜拉欣
- Hindi: इब्राहीम
- Indonesian: Ibrahim
- Russian: Ибраги́м
- Turkish: İbrahim

## People named Ibrahim

- Ibrahim I, 18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1640–1648)
- Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch footballer (born 1986)
- Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, 29º Ottoman Grand Vizier (1493-1536)
- Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Egyptian general and Wāli of Egypt (1789–1848)
- Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor, 17th and current Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia & Sultan of Johor
- Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, former President of the Maldives
- Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (1927–2005)
- Ibrahim Mbaye, French-Senegalese footballer (born 2008)
- Ibrahim ibn Adham, ascetic Sufi saint
- Ibrahim Mahlab, Egyptian politician; prime minister (2014-2015)
- Ibrahim Maza, Algerian-German footballer
- Ibrahim Ba, French footballer (born 1973)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.