Abraham
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the male personal name Abraham, from Hebrew Avra/iawj, traditionally interpreted as “father of a multitude of nations”
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/abɾaam/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abraham is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 2.1K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 2.8K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 422 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
84,024 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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 male personal name Abraham, from Hebrew Avra/iawj, traditionally interpreted as “father of a multitude of nations”
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abraham 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 | — | 84,024 | 1 in 4K | 84K | Abraham | 422 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Abraham | 25 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Abraham | 82 |
| PE Peru | #286 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Abraham | 81 |
| ES Spain | #377 | 15,134 | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Abraham | 160 |
| VE Venezuela | #316 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Abraham | 70 |
| CL Chile | #254 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 2 | Abraham | 99 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 7,630 | 1 in 2.2K | 7.6K | — | 45 |
| MX Mexico | #161 | — | — | 649 | Abraham | 239 |
84,024 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry 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)
Abraham 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.
Abram means 'exalted father'; Abraham is traditionally interpreted as 'father of a multitude'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
He represents the archetype of unwavering faith and obedience to God, serving as the foundational figure for the covenant between God and humanity in the Abrahamic traditions.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
A timeless biblical name symbolizing leadership, faith, and fatherhood.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Name of the patriarch, 1722 in Palatinate.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In English, from Hebrew Abram 'high father', changed to Abraham 'father of a multitude'; first attested Abraham de Strattuna 1170-1175
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Abraham Orteliusb. 1527BEFlemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)
- Abraham de Moivreb. 1667FRFrench mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
- Abraham Lincolnb. 1809USpresident of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)
- Camille Pissarrob. 1830FRnot in their usual nameDanish-French painter (1830-1903)
- Bram Stokerb. 1847IEnot in their usual nameIrish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)
- Albert Abraham Michelsonb. 1852USAmerican physicist (1852–1931)
- Albert Cohenb. 1895CHnot in their usual nameSwiss writer (1895-1981)
- Abraham Maslowb. 1909USAmerican psychologist (1908–1970)
- Joey Bishopb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican entertainer (1918–2007)
- Jesse McCartneyb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and actor
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)
Attested in 155 sources across 77 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 84K | #629 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15K | #424 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 14K | #197 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 7.6K | #230 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.7K | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 649 | #123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 199 | #629 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 162 | — |
Reference works 10
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- 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 Abraham mean, and where does it come from?
- from the male personal name Abraham, from Hebrew Avra/iawj, traditionally interpreted as “father of a multitude of nations” Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Abraham?
- In the etymology graph, Ibrahim, Brahim and Avraham are forms of the same name in other languages; Bram is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Abraham 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, where it is most often spelled abraham.
- Is Abraham a male or female name?
- Abraham 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 Abraham?
- In the United States, the national register counted 84,024 people named Abraham in 2020, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Abraham compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Abraham is the 161st most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Abraham?
- A machine transcription gives /abɾaam/ (IPA) for Spanish.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abrahamThe 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, “Abraham” — the 161st most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.