Avram
Avram was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,558 among boys’ names; 937 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avram by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avram mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Avram is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Abram.”
From transliterations of modern pronunciations of Hebrew אַבְרָם (avrám). Doublet of Abram and Abramo.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avram?
#4,558 among boys’ names, 2025
Avram fell from #3,598 in 2015 to #4,558 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 12.9 per million.
30 babies in 2015, the peak
Avram peaked in 2015, when 30 boys were given it, #3,598 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,558 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,824 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,269 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,862 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,918 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,433 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,232 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,933 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,607 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,104 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,598 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,499 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,632 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,012 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,375 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,268 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,044 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,914 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,250 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,949 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,335 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,017 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,289 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,705 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,710 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,797 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,337 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,359 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,387 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,209 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,812 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,600 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,800 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,171 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,244 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,015 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,837 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,810 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,741 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,881 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,185 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,441 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,644 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,982 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,233 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,168 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,912 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,178 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,859 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,492 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,842 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,810 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,029 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,999 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,207 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,872 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,696 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,707 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,006 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,563 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,064 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,078 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,328 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,718 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,685 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,051 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,658 | 4.7 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,561 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,529 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,963 | 3.9 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,527 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,505 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,346 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Avram a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avram has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avram: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avram, and how old are they?
An estimated 877 Americans named Avram and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 903 people named Avram (3 women and girls, 900 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,791 babies since 1880, Avram is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 285 babies (7.7%), the third most given that year.
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 Avram
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 Avram and names like it
- Compare Avram and AvrahamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAvram peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avram since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Avram: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Avram.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avram alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.