Amram
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The name Amram (Hebrew: עַמְרָם, ʿamrām) is generally understood to mean 'exalted people' or 'exalted nation', derived from the Hebrew elements 'am' (people, nation) and 'ram' (exalted, high)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əmɹæm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amram is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 47th most common given name.
- QAQatar≈1 in 642as עמרם(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.8Kas עמרם
- MAMorocco≈1 in 5Kas עמרם
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amram itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 375K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 named עמרם, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled עמרם in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The name Amram (Hebrew: עַמְרָם, ʿamrām) is generally understood to mean 'exalted people' or 'exalted nation', derived from the Hebrew elements 'am' (people, nation) and 'ram' (exalted, high).
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amram counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #404 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | עמרם | 4 |
| QA Qatar | #47 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 642 | — | עמרם | 1 |
| IL Israel | #358 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 3.5K | עמרם | 65 |
| YE Yemen | #735 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | עמרם | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | #718 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | עמרם | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 6 | Amram | 6 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Amram is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
A Hebrew name meaning 'exalted people' or 'the people are exalted'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Amram's significance is communal rather than individual; he represents one of the many Israelites who responded to Ezra's call for religious reform and separation. His inclusion in the list underscores the seriousness of the issue of intermarriage in the post-exilic period and the community's collective commitment to re-establishing its identity according to the laws of the Torah.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
He represents the immediate patriarchal link between the sons of Jacob and the Levitical priesthood established through his children.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, the father of Moses
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
pai de Moisés; Moses father
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- David Werner Amramb. 1866USAmerican lawyer (1866-1939)
- David Amramb. 1930USAmerican composer, arranger, and conductor (born 1930)
- Aharon Amramb. 1939ILIsraeli singer
- Helena Amramb. 1949ILMatchmaker and writer
- Guy Amramb. 1953FRFrench actor
- Meirav Amramb. 1969ILPh.D. Bar-Ilan University 2000
- Hila Amramb. 1976ILIsraeli artist
- Megan Amramb. 1987USAmerican comedian and writer
- Liron Amramb. 1988ILIsraeli singer
- Philippe AmramFRFrench astrophysicist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amram mean, and where does it come from?
- The name Amram (Hebrew: עַמְרָם, ʿamrām) is generally understood to mean 'exalted people' or 'exalted nation', derived from the Hebrew elements 'am' (people, nation) and 'ram' (exalted, high). Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What are other forms of the name Amram?
- In the etymology graph, Omran and Ambram are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Amram?
- A machine transcription gives /əmɹæm/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Amram have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named עמרם in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Amram most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amram is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 375 thousand people — even though Morocco holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Amram?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Amram, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
- How common is Amram compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Amram is the 404th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amramThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amram” — the 404th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.