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Ibrahim - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Ibrahim

[ 3 syll. i-bra-him, ib-rah-im ] The boy name Ibrahim is pronounced IHBRaaHHIYM KEY. Ibrahim's origin is Hebrew, and its use, Arabic, Spanish, 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 2008, 0.020% of baby boys were named Ibrahim. It was #589 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 2008. 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, German, and Hebrew).

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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