Avraham
given name · Latin script
Meaning: patriarch of nations
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/avʲiraxam/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Avraham is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 5th most common given name.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 320K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 390K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Avraham itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
84,024 named Abraham, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled אברהם in IL Israel, US United States and Abraham in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patriarch of nations
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Avraham counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 84,024as Abraham | 1 in 4K | 84K | אברהם | 234 |
| IL Israel | #5 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 145 | 20K | אברהם | 126 |
| ES Spain | — | 15,134as Abraham | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Abraham | 17 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 7,630as Abraham | 1 in 2.2K | 7.6K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,119as Abraham | 1 in 4.8K | 2.1K | — | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,581as Abraham | 1 in 3.2K | 1.6K | — | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | #554 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Avraham | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 18 | 1 in 960K | 11K | — | 22 |
84,024 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling abraham. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Avraham is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Jewish: modern Hebrew form of ABRAHAM .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Avraham Dov Ber Lebensohnb. 1794LTLithuanian Jewish academic (1794–1878)
- Abraham Isaac Kookb. 1865LVnot in their usual namechief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine (1865-1935)
- Chazon Ishb. 1878ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli rabbi (1878-1953)
- Abraham Shlonskyb. 1900ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli poet, translator and editor (1900-1973)
- Abraham Sternb. 1907PLnot in their usual nameJewish paramilitary leader and founder of Lehi (1907-1942)
- Abraham J. Twerskib. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican rabbi and psychiatrist (1930–2021)
- Avraham Hirschsonb. 1941ILIsraeli politician (1941–2022)
- Art Spiegelmanb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican cartoonist and writer (born 1948)
- Avraham Grantb. 1955ILIsraeli association football manager
- Abraham Burgb. 1955ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.6K | #4,968 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 214 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #24,512 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 18 | #12,499 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 11 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #4,968 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2023 | 1 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #92,988 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Avraham mean, and where does it come from?
- patriarch of nations Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- What are other forms of the name Avraham?
- In the etymology graph, Ibrahim, Abraham and Ibrahima are forms of the same name in other languages; Avi is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Avraham?
- In Polish /avʲiraxam/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Avraham a male or female name?
- Avraham is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026).
- In which country does Avraham have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 84 thousand people named Abraham, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Avraham?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 18 people named Avraham, about 1 in 960 thousand residents.
- How common is Avraham compared with other names?
- In Israel, Avraham is the 5th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/avrahamThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Avraham” — the 5th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.