Braham

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Brahim in FR France, MA Morocco, MR Mauritania and 17 more, Brahimi in CH Switzerland, SE Sweden, HR Croatia and 1 more and บูราฮัม in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Braham is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name8.0K records spelled Braham3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, Algeria, United Kingdom

  Also written Brahàm

• Spanish given name3.2K records spelled Braham5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, United States, India

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Brâhâm, Brahám

• Danish given name119 records spelled Braham6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Bråhãm

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Braham 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 English, different form of Bream (i)

  as a name·Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

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.

Over time●

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• John Brahamb. 1774GBEnglish operatic tenor (1774-1856)
• David Brahamb. 1834USBritish-born American composer
• John J. Brahamb. 1847USAmerican composer
• Edmund Brahamb. 1860pianist, composer, and publisher active in the United States after 1895
• Lionel Brahamb. 1879GBBritish actor
• Philip Brahamb. 1881GBBritish composer (1881–1934)
• Abdelwahed Brahemb. 1933TNnot in their usual nameTunisian writer
• Loraine Brahamb. 1938AUAustralian politician
• Henry Brahamb. 1965GBdirector of photography
• Myriam Ould-Brahamb. 1982FRballet dancer

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 94 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Braham?

We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Braham (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Braham have the most bearers?

Braham is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled braham.

How common is Braham compared with other names?

In Mauritania, Braham is the 8th most common given name of 559 given names recorded there.

Is Braham a male or female name?

Braham 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.

What does the name Braham mean?

Recorded meaning: from Bramham (West Riding of Yorkshire), Braham, or occasionally Brantham, Suffolk; first attested Eustace de Braham 1189–99 Colch (Essex)