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 [ 2 syll. a-bram, ab-r-am ] The boy name Abram is pronounced as ahBRAEM KEY. Abram is used predominantly in English, Hebrew, and Russian, 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 original forms of the name. Abram was possibly an independent name of distinct Hebrew origins. In the Bible, Abram's 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. Abram is a variant (English, Hebrew, and Russian) of the name Abraham (Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew). The short forms Abe (Dutch and English) and Bram (Dutch and English) are variants of the name. Abram is a fairly popular baby name for boys. The name's popularity has been growing since the 1990s. Its usage peaked modestly in 2008 with 0.022% of baby boys being named Abram. It ranked at #548 then. In 2008, among the group of boy names directly related to Abram, Abraham (Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew) was the most regularly used. It was used 4 times more than Abram in that year. Baby names that sound like Abram include Abraam (Spanish), Abrahan (Portuguese and Spanish), Abrahán (Spanish), Abran (English and Spanish), Afrim (Albanian), Auburn (English), Avrum (Yiddish), Efraim (English, German, and Hebrew), Efrain (Spanish), Efraín (Spanish), Efren (English and Spanish), Abarran (Basque), Aberham (English), Abramo (Italian and Spanish), Afrimi (Albanian), Auberon (English), Avraham (Hebrew), Efrayim (English and Hebrew), Abrahamo (Esperanto, Italian, and Spanish), and Aviram (Hebrew). 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)"   |
