Abraham
About 104,175 American babies have been named Abraham since 1880, most of them around 2016. In 2025 it ranked 209th. About 84,000 Abrahams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Abraham boys named Abraham
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 104,175
- Estimated living today
- 84,000
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 157th
- Rank in 2025
- 209th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 208 / 103,967
How old the living Abrahams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 104,175 babies given the name since 1880, about 84,000 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 37,000 of them are children and 3,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Middle English Abraham, from Old English Abraham, from Latin Ābrahām, from Ancient Greek Ἀβρᾱᾱ́μ, from Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (“Abraham”). Thomas L. Thompson suggests that the meaning of the name in Genesis was forgotten due to its age and that its original meaning was "Father is exalted." Glossed as אַב (“father of”) + הֲמוֹן (“multitude of”) in Genesis 17:4–5; or from Hebrew אַבְרָם (“Abram”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Abrahams
- Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)president of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931)American physicist
- Abraham Maslow (1908–1970)American psychologist
- Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598)Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer
- Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754)French mathematician (*1667 – †1754)
- Abraham ibn Ezra (1092–1167)12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer
- Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920)Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817)German geologist
People named Abraham with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Abraham is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Abraham is most concentrated in Hawaii (2.5×), New York (2.4×), Arizona (2.3×), Nevada (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Abraham peaked:
Abraham elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Abraham | 2,865 | 552nd |
| England and Wales boys | Abraham | 1,955 | 454th |
| Spain boys | Abraham | 845 | 94th |
| Norway boys | Abraham | 303 | 322nd |
| Belgium boys | Abraham | 188 | 718th |
| Switzerland boys | Abraham | 112 | 710th |
| Ireland boys | Abraham | 99 | 322nd |
| Scotland boys | Abraham | 33 | 529th |
| Poland boys | Abraham | 27 birth registrations | 391st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Abraham | 6 | 398th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Abraham: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Abraham | 74 | 0.006% | 664th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Abraham | 36 | 0.008% | 442nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Abraham | 2 | 0.003% | 194th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Abraham is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 38 of them.
Abraham: rank by region
In 2025, Abraham was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Abraham | 914 | 5 |
In 2025, Abraham was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Abraham | 269 | 3 |
In 2017, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Abraham appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (346th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Abraham by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Abraham among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Abraham | 10,979 | 19,017 |
| Finland boys | Abraham | 47 | 364 |
| the Netherlands girls | Abraham | — | 39 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Abraham lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 15,134 men called Abraham were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cádiz | Abraham | 1,006 | 1.621 | 95 |
| Sevilla | Abraham | 1,426 | 1.479 | 94 |
| Huelva | Abraham | 372 | 1.391 | 105 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Abraham | 603 | 1.131 | 132 |
| Badajoz | Abraham | 331 | 1.009 | 131 |
| Granada | Abraham | 466 | 1.002 | 129 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Abraham against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.