Abraham
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About Abraham
Abraham is among the most classic baby names that's still widely-used today, popular for its references to both the Bible and American history. The Biblical Abraham was the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and is considered the founding father of the Jewish people. He was originally named Abram, until, according to Genesis, he was told, "No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations."
In the nineteenth century, President Lincoln hung a beard on the name Abraham, which kept it from reaching the mass modern popularity of other biblical names like Benjamin and Samuel. Interestingly, Lincoln is now a more popular name for boys than Abraham.
Now that names like Ezekiel and Isaiah are making a comeback, more parents are thinking about a Baby Abie or -- even better -- a Baby Bram. And it does, of course, have the noble namesake of Honest Abe to recommend it.
Country music singer Lila McCann chose it for her son, as did musician Ziggy Marley.
Abraham Van Helsing is the wise Dutch doctor in Dracula who understands the ways of vampires.
Pronounced AY-bruh-ham.
As of October 2026, Abraham ranked #209 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #124 in 1911, Nameberry popularity #443.
Editor's take: The name Abraham is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "father of multitudes".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #180 | 2,382 | 1,240.1 |
| 2015 | #170 | 2,454 | 1,280.3 |
| 2016 | #157 | 2,583 | 1,361.1 |
| 2017 | #169 | 2,328 | 1,257.7 |
| 2018 | #163 | 2,372 | 1,306.1 |
| 2019 | #191 | 2,064 | 1,150.4 |
| 2020 | #201 | 1,899 | 1,100.2 |
| 2021 | #202 | 1,913 | 1,093.5 |
| 2022 | #203 | 1,840 | 1,053.8 |
| 2023 | #218 | 1,695 | 990.9 |
| 2024 | #204 | 1,729 | 1,003.5 |
| 2025 | #209 | 1,664 | 974.2 |
World rankings
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Abraham on lists
Famous Abrahams
- Abraham
Biblical patriarch
- Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. president
- Abraham David "Abe" Beame
American politician; former mayor of New York City
- Abraham "Bram" Stoker
Irish novelist
- Abraham Van Buren
son of U.S. President Martin Van Buren
- Abraham Harold Maslow
American psychologist
- Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra
medieval Spanish rabbi and scholar
- Abraham Baldwin
U.S. Senator and Founding Father from Georgia
- Abraham Geiger
German rabbi who led to the founding of Reform Judaism
- Abraham Ortelius
Flemish cartographer who invented the modern atlas
- Abraham I
III, Patriarchs of the Church of the East
- Abraham Woodhull
American Revolutionary spy
- Abraham Chamiec
Polish nobleman
- Abraham Cwi Dawidowicz
Polish,Jewish composer
- Abraham Flaks
Russian,Jewish chief rabbi of Cracow
- Abraham Szymon Goldstein
Polish industrialist of Silesia
- Abraham Abel Gombiner
Polish,Jewish philosopher, tzadik, chief rabbi of Kalisz
- Abraham Karpinowicz
Polish,Jewish writer
- Abraham Izaak Kamiński
Polish,Jewish actor and director
- Abraham Kulwieć
Polish,Lithuanian reformation activist
- Abraham Kurc
Polish,Jewish actor
- Abraham Morewski
Polish,Jewish writer and actor
- Abraham Neumann
Polish painter and graphic designer
- Abraham Perlmutter
Polish rabbi and parliamentarian
- Abraham Socha
Polish crusader from Masovia
- Abraham Jakub Stern
Polish,Jewish inventor
- Abraham Lincoln "Abe" Erlanger
American theatrical producer, director, designer, theatre owner, and a leading figure of the Theatrical Syndicate
- Abraham Zbąski
Polish magnate
- Abraham Elliot Wolofsky (b. 2008)
son of American country singer Lila McCann
- Abraham Selassie Robert Nesta Marley (b. 2011)
son of Jamaican musician Ziggy Marley
- Abraham George
Indian,American businessman, academic, and philanthropist; founder of Shanti Bhavan, a free K,12 boarding school of international standards for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in India
Abraham in pop culture
- Abraham Van Helsing
character in Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
- Abraham Jay
Jedediah "Abe" Simpson aka Grampa Simpson, character on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Abraham Ford
character on TV's "The Walking Dead"
- Abraham Setrakian
character on TV's "The Strain"
- Abraham Finkel
character in "Sims" series
- Abraham Van Helsing from the otome visual novel Code Realize: Guardian of Rebirth
only loosely based on his literary namesake.
- Abraham Ravenwood
one of the antagonists of the Caster Chronicles series
- Abraham “Abe” Sapien
character in “Hellboy”
Variations & nicknames
- AbrashaRussian
- AvránSpanish
- AvromHebrew
- AvramijRussian
- AvronHebrew
- BranchoSpanish
- AramArmenian
- AbrãoPortuguese
- AbrahánSpanish
- AvrumkeYiddish
- AbarranBasque
- AbrahamoItalian
- AvrahamHebrew
- AvramGreek
- AbrachamIrish Gaelic
- AvraamRussian
- AberhánSpanish
- EbrahimArabic
- AbramoItalian
- AbraánSpanish
- IbrahimArabic
- AbránSpanish
- AvrumHebrew