Abram - Origin and Meaning of the name

The boy name Abram [ 2 syll. a-bram, ab-r-am ] is pronounced as ahBRAEM ^KEY. Abram is used predominantly in Russian and English, and its origin is Hebrew. Abram's meaning is high father. Biblical name derived from the elements 'av' which means father ; 'ruwm' which means to uplift, to lift up. Abiram (Hebrew) and Avram (Hebrew) are old forms of the name. Abram was possibly an independent name of distinct Hebrew origins. In the Bible, Abram name was changed to Abraham by God when it was revealed that he would be the father of the Hebrew nation. The name could have been used as an English short form of Abraham since the Middle Ages.

Bram (Dutch and English short form) is a variant of the name.

In addition, Abram is a variant (Russian) of the name Abraham (Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew).

Abram is a fairly popular baby name for boys. The name's popularity has been growing since the 1990s. Its usage peaked modestly in 2007 with 0.021% of baby boys being named Abram. It ranked at #563 then. In 2007, among the group of boy names directly related to Abram, Abraham (Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew) was the most regularly used. It was used 5 times more than Abram in that year.

Baby names that sound like Abram include Abrahan (Portuguese), Abran (English), Afrim (Albanian), Avrum (Yiddish), Efraim (English and German), Efrain (Spanish), Efren (English), Abramo (Italian), Afrimi (Albanian), Auberon (English), Avraham (Hebrew), and Abrahamo (Esperanto).

^KEY: Pronunciation for Abram: AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)"

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for Abram
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for Abram
in 2007