Meaning not yet researched.
Ibrahim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 939 in 2025. Its best rank was #351 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Ibrahim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#351 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ibrahim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 939 boys in 2025. Peak: #351 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 939 (2025).
In 2025, 939 US boys were named Ibrahim, making it the 351st most common boys’ name of the year, up 8 places from #359 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 923 boys named Ibrahim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #351, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 939. For comparison, it was #436 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ibrahim in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 17,907 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,877 babies named Ibrahim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,982 US boys were named Ibrahim; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 939. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,819 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ibrahim ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #137 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), Avraham (4,992 babies since 1880) and Ibraheem (1,599 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ibrahima, Ebrahim and Ibrohim 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: Ibrahima (1,098), Ebrahim (616), Ibrohim (201), Ibrahem (79), Ibraham (66), Ibraheim (5), Ibrahiim (5).
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 Ibrahim 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 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 141 | #137 | #226 |
| New Jersey | 55 | #182 | #276 |
| Michigan | 56 | #187 | #280 |
| Illinois | 59 | #200 | #360 |
| Maryland | 29 | #203 | #331 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #204 | — |
| Minnesota | 31 | #212 | #212 |
| Virginia | 35 | #247 | #337 |
| Ohio | 45 | #276 | #393 |
| Washington | 26 | #293 | #337 |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #351 | #315 |
| California | 99 | #355 | #469 |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #358 | #339 |
| Texas | 97 | #381 | #476 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #467 | #470 |
| North Carolina | 21 | #490 | #603 |
| Georgia | 22 | #490 | #466 |
| Iowa | 6 | #529 | — |
| Arizona | 13 | #538 | #446 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #543 | #507 |
| Kansas | 6 | #551 | #621 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #566 | #488 |
| Florida | 29 | #590 | #683 |
| Colorado | 9 | #590 | #731 |
| Indiana | 11 | #595 | #593 |
| Missouri | 9 | #612 | #775 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #650 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #746 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #790 | #697 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 939 | #351 |
| 2024 | — | — | 923 | #359 |
| 2023 | — | — | 775 | #412 |
| 2022 | — | — | 766 | #419 |
| 2021 | — | — | 664 | #456 |
| 2020 | — | — | 673 | #441 |
| 2019 | — | — | 820 | #383 |
| 2018 | — | — | 791 | #402 |
| 2017 | — | — | 815 | #390 |
| 2016 | — | — | 816 | #394 |
| 2015 | — | — | 699 | #436 |
| 2014 | — | — | 649 | #456 |
| 2013 | — | — | 631 | #451 |
| 2012 | — | — | 549 | #488 |
| 2011 | — | — | 575 | #467 |
| 2010 | — | — | 532 | #488 |
| 2009 | — | — | 465 | #569 |
| 2008 | — | — | 428 | #590 |
| 2007 | — | — | 435 | #587 |
| 2006 | — | — | 417 | #588 |
| 2005 | — | — | 385 | #587 |
| 2004 | — | — | 379 | #587 |
| 2003 | — | — | 341 | #612 |
| 2002 | — | — | 284 | #659 |
| 2001 | — | — | 269 | #676 |
| 2000 | — | — | 255 | #693 |
| 1999 | — | — | 229 | #719 |
| 1998 | — | — | 177 | #831 |
| 1997 | — | — | 190 | #779 |
| 1996 | — | — | 205 | #743 |
| 1995 | — | — | 157 | #867 |
| 1994 | — | — | 152 | #877 |
| 1993 | — | — | 157 | #847 |
| 1992 | — | — | 111 | #1,040 |
| 1991 | — | — | 120 | #976 |
| 1990 | — | — | 140 | #866 |
| 1989 | — | — | 89 | #1,122 |
| 1988 | — | — | 88 | #1,060 |
| 1987 | — | — | 61 | #1,254 |
| 1986 | — | — | 72 | #1,105 |
| 1985 | — | — | 67 | #1,141 |
| 1984 | — | — | 52 | #1,284 |
| 1983 | — | — | 61 | #1,159 |
| 1982 | — | — | 64 | #1,142 |
| 1981 | — | — | 62 | #1,172 |
| 1980 | — | — | 53 | #1,277 |
| 1979 | — | — | 61 | #1,160 |
| 1978 | — | — | 40 | #1,480 |
| 1977 | — | — | 29 | #1,803 |
| 1976 | — | — | 27 | #1,848 |
| 1975 | — | — | 41 | #1,365 |
| 1974 | — | — | 24 | #1,906 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,716 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,045 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,740 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #2,970 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,136 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,857 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,737 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,810 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,324 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,073 |
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).