Ebrahim

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ebrahim is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic].

rarermore common
  • BHBahrain1 in 156◐
  • TRTürkiye1 in 162
  • TJTajikistan1 in 279

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈662K ●

across 9 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
190 ●

713K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 162 ◐

Türkiye

Spellings & scripts●

IbrahimLatin · Hindi●272K records
ИбрагимCyrillic · Russian●153K records
ইব্রাহিমBengali · Bangla●1.5K records
ᲘბრაგიმGeorgian · Georgian●1.2K records
ஆபரஹாமTamil · Tamil●0 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ibrahim in TR Türkiye, IN India, BD Bangladesh and 4 more, Ибрагим in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, AZ Azerbaijan and 1 more, Иброхим in UZ Uzbekistan, TJ Tajikistan and Ибрахим in KZ Kazakhstan.

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●

A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic].

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ebrahim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—505,052△24K rec.1 in 162505KIbrahim55
IN India—369,157286K rec.—27KIbrahim142
RU Russia#209203,710144K rec.—#86Ибрагим139
BD Bangladesh#202144,73410K rec.—listedIbrahim111
US United States—83,825△33K rec.1 in 4K84KEbrahim190
NG Nigeria#25728,39547K rec.——Ibrahim66
KG Kyrgyzstan#11925,5477.5K rec.——Ибрагим19
FR France—25,045△379 rec.1 in 2.7K25KIbragim58
UZ Uzbekistan#9321,0851.2K rec.—listedИброхим21
EG Egypt#35915,44816K rec.——Ebrahim111
ES Spain—15,134△357 rec.1 in 3.3K15KEbrahim24
TJ Tajikistan#1214,949376 rec.—1.9KИброхим11

Roughly 505K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 162). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic42K32%
  • English18K13%
  • Hindi13K10%
  • 12K9%
  • Persian8.3K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic41,63532%
English17,57913%
Hindi12,97910%
11,6479%
Persian8,3356%

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◐

Ebrahim is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name16K records spelled Ebrahim3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Ethiopia, United States, Iran

    Also written Ebrāhīm, Ebrāhim

  • Danish given name1.1K records spelled Ebrahim7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, South Africa, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Ebrähïm, Ëbrähim

50 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●

Ebrahim is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, Abraham + title

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In mdh, Abraham

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

010203040199020002010202036 · 2016

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Ebrahim in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1981–2025
Yearrecords
19816
19837
19845
19867
19879
19886
19907
19926
199314
199511
19968
19975
199812
19998
20007
20015
200214
200310
200417
200520
200621
200714
20088
200916
201012
201112
201218
201322
201429
201523
201636
201729
201826
201920
202021
202127
202221
202320
202430
202527

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1981–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Ebrahim Hakimi, b. 1871Ebrahim Amini, b. 1925Ebrahim Ashtiani, b. 1942Ebrahim E.I. Moosa, b. 1950Ebrahim Ghasempour, b. 1957Ebrahim Nabavi, b. 1958Ebrahim Raisi, b. 1960Ebrahim Hatamikia, b. 1961Ebrahim Rasool, b. 1962Ebrahim Mirzapour, b. 1978

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●

Attested in 64 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Ebrahim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#8,965
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,426
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—1K#568
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010884#27,331
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—707#2,161
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000565#37,145
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020434—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—306#13,211
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—228#4,366
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—172#10,162
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—156#5,085
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—140#49,003

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 220 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ebrahim?
We estimate roughly 662 thousand people bear Ebrahim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Ebrahim have the most bearers?
We estimate about 505 thousand people bear Ebrahim in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ibrahim.
How common is Ebrahim compared with other names?
In Bahrain, Ebrahim is the 3rd most common given name of 2,246 given names recorded there.
Is Ebrahim a male or female name?
Ebrahim 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 Ebrahim mean?
Recorded meaning: A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic].
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Ebrahim” — the 3rd most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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