Meaning not yet researched.
Bram: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,995 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,995 in 2016; #2,422 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bram in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,422 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,995.
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Bram: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,995 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 72 (2016).
In 2025, 56 US boys were named Bram, making it the 2,422nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 544 places from #2,966 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 42 boys named Bram in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,995, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 72. For comparison, it was #2,570 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bram in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 1,537 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 495 babies named Bram.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 460 US boys were named Bram; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,501 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bram ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #714 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Abraham (104,175 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brahm, Brayam and Brahim are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brahm (346), Brayam (284), Brahim (152), Braham (12), Braum (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bram in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 5 | #714 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 56 | #2,422 |
| 2024 | — | — | 42 | #2,966 |
| 2023 | — | — | 40 | #3,066 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,546 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,923 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,210 |
| 2019 | — | — | 36 | #3,211 |
| 2018 | — | — | 52 | #2,479 |
| 2017 | — | — | 53 | #2,422 |
| 2016 | — | — | 72 | #1,995 |
| 2015 | — | — | 48 | #2,570 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,376 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,304 |
| 2012 | — | — | 50 | #2,495 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,054 |
| 2010 | — | — | 38 | #3,021 |
| 2009 | — | — | 37 | #3,113 |
| 2008 | — | — | 37 | #3,112 |
| 2007 | — | — | 34 | #3,263 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,939 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,330 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,225 |
| 2003 | — | — | 41 | #2,512 |
| 2002 | — | — | 21 | #3,927 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,421 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,224 |
| 1999 | — | — | 18 | #4,000 |
| 1998 | — | — | 23 | #3,303 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,403 |
| 1996 | — | — | 29 | #2,601 |
| 1995 | — | — | 23 | #3,031 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,398 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,379 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,594 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,564 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,190 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,637 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,729 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,905 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,745 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,602 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,908 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,643 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,557 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,443 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,027 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,421 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,635 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,488 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,294 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,345 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,135 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,698 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,800 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,470 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,196 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,008 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,583 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,109 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,467 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,772 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,733 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).