Ibrahim

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ибраһим 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●

Attested across 11 languages 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◐

Ibrahim is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name1.6M records spelled Ibrahim80 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria, Algeria, Bangladesh, United States

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written I'Brahim, Ibrāhīm, Ibràhim, Ỉbrahim, Ibrahïm

• Indonesian given name638K records spelled Ibrahim7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, India

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Ibrahim', 'Ibrahim, Ibrāhīm

• a separate given name286K records spelled Ibrahim18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Türkiye

  Also written Ibrāhīm, Ibraẖim, Ibráhim, Ibrahîm, Ibrāhim

• French given name272K records spelled Ibrahim8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Côte d’Ivoire, Belgium, United States

  Also written Ibràhim, I'Brahim, Ibrāhīm, Ibrahîm, Ibrahïm

• Spanish given name137K records spelled Ibrahim31 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, Argentina, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Ibrahím, Ibrāhīm, I'Brahim, Ïbrähïm, Ïbrãhîm

• Amharic given name73K records spelled Ibrahim8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Türkiye, United States

  Also written ኢብራሂም, እብራሂም, እብራህም, ኢብራሒም, ኢብራህም

96 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●

Ibrahim is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Hausa, Hausa: 'father is exalted'; Muslim form of Abraham.

  as a name·African Names

• In French, Arabic form of Abraham, 'father of a multitude'.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In German, Arabic name from Ibrāhīm, cognate of Abraham

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• from the personal name Ibrahim, Arabic form of Abraham. In Islam, Ibrahim is identified as a prophet, the ancestor of all the Semitic peoples, both Hebrew and Arab, and the father of Isma'Il (see Ismail) and Ishaq (see Ishak).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Arabic form of Abraham (see main dictionary), the biblical patriarch and father of Isma‘il and Isaq (Ishmael and Isaac), founding fathers of the Arabic and Jewish peoples respectively.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 144 years between 1863–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ibrahim Ib. 1615TR18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1640–1648)
• Muhammad Alib. 1769GRnot in their usual nameWali of Egypt and Sudan (1769–1849)
• Ibrahim Rugovab. 1944XKPresident of Kosovo (1944-2006)
• Ibrahim Boubacar Keïtab. 1945MLMalian politician
• Melih Gökçekb. 1948TRnot in their usual nameformer Mayor of Ankara
• Ibrahim Iskandar of Johorb. 1958MY17th and current Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia & Sultan of Johor
• Ebrahim Raisib. 1960IRnot in their usual namePresident of Iran from 2021 to 2024
• Ibrahim Mohamed Solihb. 1964MVformer President of the Maldives
• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadib. 1971IQnot in their usual nameLeader of the Islamic State (1971-2019)
• Ibrahim Traoréb. 1988BFmilitary leader of Burkina Faso since 2022

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 · 1,369 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ibrahim?

We estimate roughly 598 thousand people bear Ibrahim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Ibrahim have the most bearers?

We estimate about 505 thousand people bear Ibrahim in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ibrahim.

How common is Ibrahim compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Ibrahim is the 9th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Ibrahim a male or female name?

Ibrahim 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 Ibrahim mean?

Recorded meaning: from the Muslim personal name Ibrahim, the Arabic form of Abraham