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Ibrahim - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Ibrahim
 
 

 


The boy name Ibrahim [ 3 syll. i-bra-him, ib-rah-im ] is pronounced IHBRaaHHIYM KEY. Ibrahim's origin is Hebrew, and its use, Arabic and Turkish. Ibrahim is a variant of Abraham (Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew).

Ibrahim is rather popular as a baby boy name. The name's popularity has been increasing since the 1990s. At the modest height of its usage in 2007, 0.020% of baby boys were named Ibrahim. It was #585 in rank then. Within the family of boy names directly related to Ibrahim, Abraham (Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew) was the most widely used in 2007. It was 5 times more regularly used than Ibrahim in that year.

Baby names that sound like Ibrahim include Ibraheem (Arabic and Indian), Ebrahim (Arabic and Iranian), and Ephraim (English and German).

KEY: English pronunciation for Ibrahim: IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)"


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