Ibrahim

Popularity, 1880–2025

boys named Ibrahim

By the numbers

Total US births

17,907

Estimated living today

18,000

Median age today

11

Peak year

2025

Best rank

351st

Rank in 2025

351st

First recorded

1954

How old the living Ibrahims are

born that year still alive today

Of the 17,907 babies given the name since 1954, about 18,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 3 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Ibrahims

• Ibrahim I (1615–1648)18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
• Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (1945–2022)Malian politician
• Ibrahim Traoré (born 1988)military leader of Burkina Faso since 2022
• Ibrahim Rugova (1944–2006)President of Kosovo
• Ibrahim Afellay (born 1986)Dutch footballer
• Ibrahim (born 1813 BC)forefather of the Abrahamic religions from the Islamic perspective
• Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1495–1536)29º Ottoman Grand Vizier
• Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789–1848)Egyptian general and Wāli of Egypt

People named Ibrahim with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Ibrahim is most common

• NY2,878
• CA1,846
• TX1,441
• IL1,145
• NJ922
• MI909
• OH744
• VA723
• PA636
• MN634

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ibrahim is most concentrated in New York (2.3×), Maryland (2.3×), Minnesota (2.1×), New Jersey (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Ibrahim peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• Henry
• James

All the names of 2025

Ibrahim elsewhere

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.

Ibrahim: births by region

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, Ibrahim is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.08% of children were given it – 83 of them.

Ibrahim: rank by region

In 2025, Ibrahim was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Ibrahim was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.

In 2023, Ibrahim was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Ibrahim was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ibrahim appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (11th), Province of Antwerp (23rd), Province of Liège (54th), Province of Flemish Brabant (77th), Province of Limburg (89th), Province of Hainaut (117th), Province of East Flanders (118th) and Province of West Flanders (138th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, 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.

Ibrahim by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Ibrahim 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.

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 Ibrahim lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 8,522 men called Ibrahim 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

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Ibraheem
• Ibrahima

Ibrahim against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Ibrahim vs Ibraheem
• Ibrahim vs Ibrahima

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