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Avram vs Avrohom

American parents have registered 3,495 Avrohoms since 1880, against 937 Avrams. Avrohom is still ahead, with 88 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avram against Avrohom, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avram Avrohom

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

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Avrohom for 63 years and Avram for 12 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Avram Avrohom
Total US births 9373,495
Most in one year 30111
Babies in 2025 2288
Estimated living today 8803,400
Median age today 2117
Peak year 20152021
Best rank 3,591st boys1,565th boys
Rank in 2025 4,539th1,808th
First recorded 19501955
Girls / boys 0 / 9370 / 3,495

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 Avrams alive today are over 21; half the Avrohoms are over 17. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Avram Avrohom
England and Wales 211364

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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