Ibráhim
surname · Latin script
Ibráhim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm).
- 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)
- #211 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 377 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, 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 Ibrahim in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, EG Egypt and 2 more.
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)Borrowed from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm).
Cited for this meaning 13
- A Handbook of African Names
- A concise dictionary of first names
- African Names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ibráhim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #58 | ≈1,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 119 | — | Ibrahim | 104 |
| TR Türkiye | #10 | 505,052 | 1 in 162 | 505K | Ibrahim | 176 |
| EG Egypt | #37 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 494 | — | Ibrahim | 232 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #16 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 290 | — | Ibrahim | 209 |
| SY Syria | #13 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 241 | — | Ibrahim | 65 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 311 | 4.8K | — | 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Ibráhim is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, 1. v. ♦ 2. -paša Memibegović Sarakoš nazvan Gazi, tur. vojskovođa iz 17. st., ratuje u Hrvatskoj i Ugarskoj 3. -paša , Novošeheralija (?—1621), bio tri puta osmanski veliki vezir
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ibráhim mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm). Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and A concise dictionary of first names and 11 other sources.
- In which country does Ibráhim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Ibráhim in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ibrahim.
- How common is the name Ibráhim?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 505,052 people named Ibráhim in 2025, about 1 in 162 residents.
- How common is Ibráhim compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Ibráhim is the 58th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ibr%C3%A1himThe 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, “Ibráhim” — the 58th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.