Ebrahim
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic]
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛbɹəçɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ebrahim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Bangladesh it is the 91st most common given name.
- BHBahrain≈1 in 381(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 2.5K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.9K
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 Ebrahim 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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 381 (inferred from the name graph)
505,052 named Ibrahim, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ibrahim in TR Türkiye, BD Bangladesh.
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)
A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic].
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ebrahim is read(measured from records)
Ebrahim is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic67%
Abraham + title
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- English12%
A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ebrahim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | 505,052as Ibrahim | 1 in 162 | 505K | Ibrahim | 46 |
| US United States | — | 84,024as Abraham | 1 in 4K | 84K | Ebrahim | 209 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Ebrahim | 120 |
| BD Bangladesh | #91 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Ibrahim | 114 |
| ES Spain | — | 15,134as Abraham | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Ebrahim | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 13,562as Ibrahim | 1 in 752 | 14K | Ebrahim | 25 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 7,630as Abraham | 1 in 2.2K | 7.6K | — | 3 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 381 | — | Ebrahim | 93 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,035as Ibrahim | 1 in 1.5K | 2K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 40 | 1 in 432K | 11K | Ebrahim | 14 |
505,052 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); INEC — civil registry names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Ebrahim is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mdh, Abraham
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahimb. 1937ZASouth African anti-apartheid activist and politician (1937–2021)
- Vincent Ebrahimb. 1951ZASouth African actor and comedian
- Omar Ebrahimb. 1956GBEnglish baritone vocalist and actor
- Vinette Ebrahimb. 1957ZASouth African actress and playwright
- Zak Ebrahimb. 1983USpeace activist; author of 'The Terrorist's Son'
- Al-Sayed Jafar Ebrahim Jafarb. 1985BHbadminton player
- Redwan Ebrahimb. 1997ETEthiopian cyclist
- Adnan Ebrahimb. 1998BHbadminton player
- Malak Basem Sobhy Ebrahimb. 2003EGbadminton player
- Ahmed Ibrahim Salmanb. 2004ILArab-Israeli association footballer
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 66 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,426 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 884 | #27,331 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 565 | #37,145 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 61 | #27,246 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 47 | #46,751 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 47 | #46,316 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Ebrahim mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic]. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ebrahim?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛbɹəçɪm/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What are other forms of the name Ebrahim?
- In the etymology graph, Abramo, Ábrahám and Îbrahîm are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ebrahim have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 505 thousand people named Ibrahim, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ebrahim?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 40 people named Ebrahim, about 1 in 432 thousand residents.
- How common is Ebrahim compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Ebrahim is the 91st most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ebrahim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ebrahimThe 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, “Ebrahim” — the 91st most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.