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Abram vs Abree

American parents have registered 20,244 Abrams since 1880, against 642 Abrees. Abram is still ahead, with 350 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abram against Abree, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abram Abree

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Abram has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Abram had 478 and Abree had 40.

Side by side

  Abram Abree
Total US births 20,244642
Most in one year 86446
Babies in 2025 350under 5
Estimated living today 18,000640
Median age today 1414
Peak year 20162012
Best rank 379th boys3,464th girls
Rank in 2025 742ndunranked
First recorded 18801989
Girls / boys 0 / 20,244642 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Abram and Abree.