Abram

At the 2020 census, 5,238 Americans bore the surname Abram — 6,257th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 57,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,238
Rank: 6,257th
How common: 1 in 57,100
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew, from a patronymic

From Hebrew אַבְרָם.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Abram described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 45.5%
White, not Hispanic 43.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Abram

Luis Abram (born 1996)Peruvian association football player
Nerilie Abram (born 1977)Australian scientist, climate activist and professor

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

Surnames like Abram

Also a first name

Abram has been given to 20,244 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.