Ibrahim

Where Ibrahim comes from

Borrowed from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm), borrowed from Aramaic אַבְרָהָם (ʾaḇrāhām), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm). Doublet of Abraham, Abramo, Avraham, and Abrahan.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ibrahim
  • Arabic
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1615
    Ibrahim I born
    18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
  2. 1945
    Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta born
    Malian politician
  3. 1954
    First appearance
    #3,827 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2025
    Peak, #351
    939 babies named Ibrahim — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic
Namesakes
  • Ibrahim I · 18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1615–1648
  • Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta · Malian politician, 1945–2022
  • Ibrahim Traoré · military leader of Burkina Faso since 2022, born 1988
  • Ibrahim Rugova · President of Kosovo, 1944–2006
  • Ibrahim Afellay · Dutch footballer, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.