Ibrahim

given name · Latin script

Meaning: from the Muslim personal name Ibrahim, the Arabic form of Abraham

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ibɾaçim/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ibrahim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 119(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye1 in 162
  • SYSyria≈1 in 241

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,800,000 people, est.

#211 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
377 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IbrahimLatin(measured from records)
ИбраһимCyrillic(measured from records)
이브라힘Hangul(measured from records)

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)

from the Muslim personal name Ibrahim, the Arabic form of Abraham

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ibrahim 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.

Where Ibrahim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#58≈1,800,000 est.≈1 in 119—Ibrahim104
TR Türkiye#10505,0521 in 162505KIbrahim176
EG Egypt#37≈210,000 est.≈1 in 494—Ibrahim232
SA Saudi Arabia#16≈120,000 est.≈1 in 290—Ibrahim209
SY Syria#13≈80,000 est.≈1 in 241—Ibrahim65
XK Kosovo—≈6,200 est.≈1 in 3114.8K—7

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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ibrahim is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name80 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ibrāhīm, I'Brahim, Ibràhim, Ibrahīm, Ỉbrahim

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Nigeria, Indonesia, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ibrahim', 'Ibrahim, Ibrāhīm

  • a separate name18 spellings in the group

    Also written Ìbrahim, Íbrahim, Ibrāhim, Ibrâhîm, Îbrahîm

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Cameroon

    Also written Ibràhim, Ibrāhīm, I'Brahim, Ibrahîm, Ibrahïm

  • Spanish given name31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ibrahím, Ibrāhīm, I'Brahim, Ìbrahim, Ïbrähïm

  • Amharic given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Türkiye, United States

    Also written ኢብራሂም, እብራሂም, እብራህም, ኢብራህም, ኢብራሒም

98 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ibrahim is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hausa, Hausa: 'father is exalted'; Muslim form of Abraham.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In French, Arabic form of Abraham, 'father of a multitude'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In German, Arabic name from Ibrāhīm, cognate of Abraham

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • from the personal name Ibrahim, Arabic form of Abraham. In Islam, Ibrahim is identified as a prophet, the ancestor of all the Semitic peoples, both Hebrew and Arab, and the father of Isma'Il (see Ismail) and Ishaq (see Ishak).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • Arabic form of Abraham (see main dictionary), the biblical patriarch and father of Isma‘il and Isaq (Ishmael and Isaac), founding fathers of the Arabic and Jewish peoples respectively.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

16001700180019002000Ibrahim I, b. 1615Muhammad Ali, b. 1769Ibrahim Rugova, b. 1944Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, b. 1945Melih Gökçek, b. 1948Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor, b. 1958Ebrahim Raisi, b. 1960Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, b. 1964Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, b. 1971Ibrahim Traoré, b. 1988

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)

InformalMerhaba Ibrahim,Hi Ibrahim, (English)

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)

Attested in 175 sources across 83 countries.

Official registers attesting Ibrahim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — most used given names2025505K#9
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—4.8K#74
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20232.1K#30
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)20257—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—3#74

Reference works 9

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

In which country does Ibrahim have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Ibrahim in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ibrahim.
What does the name Ibrahim mean, and where does it come from?
from the Muslim personal name Ibrahim, the Arabic form of Abraham Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Ibrahim?
A machine transcription gives /ibɾaçim/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What are other forms of the name Ibrahim?
In the etymology graph, Abraham, Brahim and Avraham are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Ibrahim a male or female name?
Ibrahim is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How common is the name Ibrahim?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 505,052 people named Ibrahim in 2025, about 1 in 162 residents.
How common is Ibrahim compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Ibrahim is the 58th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ibrahim” — the 58th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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