Bram
Bram was given to 56 boys in 2025, #2,422 among boys’ names; 1,537 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Bram and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bram by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bram mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bram is “a male given name, short for Abraham”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bram?
#2,422 among boys’ names, 2025
Bram rose from #2,569 in 2015 to #2,422 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 25.0 to 32.8 per million.
72 babies in 2016, the peak
Bram peaked in 2016, when 72 boys were given it, #1,995 among boys’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,422 | 32.8 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,965 | 24.4 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,064 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,544 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,922 | 24.0 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,208 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,208 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 52 | #2,478 | 28.6 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,421 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | 72 | #1,995 | 37.9 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #2,569 | 25.0 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,374 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,303 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,494 | 26.4 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,053 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,020 | 19.8 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,112 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,110 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,261 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,938 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,326 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,221 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,508 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,922 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,416 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,218 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #3,995 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,299 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,400 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,596 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,026 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,393 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,373 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,587 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,557 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,184 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,631 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,724 | 6.8 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,902 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,740 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,599 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,906 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,641 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,555 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,442 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,026 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,420 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,633 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,486 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,293 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,343 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,133 | 12.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,696 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,798 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,469 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,195 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,007 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,582 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,108 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,466 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,771 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,731 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bram a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bram has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bram: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bram, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,537 Americans ever recorded as Bram. The median Bram alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,417 people named Bram (8 women and girls, 1,409 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,267 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 122 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 214 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 531 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 612 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,319 babies since 1880, Bram is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 99 babies (57%), 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 Bram
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 Bram and names like it
- Compare Bram and BrahmBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBram peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bram since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Bram.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bram alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.