Avraham
Avraham was given to 214 boys in 2025, #1,034 among boys’ names; 4,992 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,880 Americans named Avraham and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avraham by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avraham mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Avraham is “a male given name from Hebrew, alternative form of Abraham.”
From transliterations of modern pronunciations of Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (Avrahám). Doublet of Abramo, Abraham, Ibrahim, and Abrahan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avraham?
#1,034 among boys’ names, 2025
Avraham rose from #1,288 in 2015 to #1,034 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.13 per 1,000.
220 babies in 2024, the peak
Avraham peaked in 2024, when 220 boys were given it, #1,013 among boys’ names. The 214 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 214 | #1,034 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 220 | #1,013 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 218 | #1,007 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 193 | #1,109 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 165 | #1,188 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 193 | #1,046 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 167 | #1,163 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 175 | #1,113 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 155 | #1,196 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 141 | #1,288 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 138 | #1,288 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 152 | #1,206 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 154 | #1,169 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,296 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,350 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 132 | #1,299 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 147 | #1,219 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 87 | #1,738 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,341 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 87 | #1,639 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,306 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 85 | #1,552 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,363 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,303 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,398 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 81 | #1,495 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 69 | #1,578 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 72 | #1,513 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 65 | #1,568 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,613 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 61 | #1,545 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 54 | #1,662 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,317 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 64 | #1,427 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 63 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 59 | #1,461 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 54 | #1,513 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 44 | #1,613 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 41 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 43 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 49 | #1,349 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 38 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,063 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,240 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 28 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,340 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,211 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,870 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,864 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,479 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,206 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,630 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,457 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,122 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,003 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,058 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,475 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Avraham a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avraham has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avraham: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avraham, and how old are they?
4,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,992 Americans ever recorded as Avraham. The median Avraham alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,579 people named Avraham (7 women and girls, 3,572 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,759 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 36 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 197 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 785 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,270 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Avraham born?
The states with the most babies named Avraham are New York, New Jersey and Florida, with 96% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 93 | #210 | 7.8× |
| New Jersey | 77 | #123 | 7.8× |
| Florida | 14 | #961 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,024 | 0.1× |
Where Avraham is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avraham is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1954 it was given 7.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Avraham with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,505 babies since 1880, Avraham is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 214 of their 330 babies (65%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Avraham
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Avraham and names like it
- Compare Avraham and AvrohomBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAvraham peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avraham since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Avraham.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avraham alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.