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Abram vs Abria

American parents have registered 20,244 Abrams since 1880, against 896 Abrias. Abram is still ahead, with 350 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Abram Abria

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 1993, when Abram had 129 and Abria had 53.

Side by side

  Abram Abria
Total US births 20,244896
Most in one year 86453
Babies in 2025 3507
Estimated living today 18,000890
Median age today 1423
Peak year 20161993
Best rank 379th boys2,380th girls
Rank in 2025 742nd11,932nd
First recorded 18801979
Girls / boys 0 / 20,244896 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Abrias alive today are over 23; half the Abrams are over 14. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Abria.