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Ibrahim name meaning

“father of many”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
I
Origin
Arabic · Hebrew
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 10.1%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s10.1%
1950s9.9%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
114

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Ibrahim

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: IMeaning faithArabic origin

Ibrahim is a boy's name from Arabic and Hebrew, the Arabic form of Abraham, linked to the sense 'father of many'.

What does Ibrahim mean?

Father of many

In Malay: bapa kepada ramai

#Faith

Sources (3)

About the name Ibrahim

Ibrahim is the Arabic form إِبْرَاهِيم (ibrāhīm) of the name Abraham, reaching Arabic through Aramaic from Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (Avraham). The Hebrew name is linked to the sense 'father of many', read as Abram plus hamon 'multitude'; another suggestion is 'father is exalted', and the exact origin is uncertain. It is the name of the prophet Ibrahim and of the 14th chapter of the Quran. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 4,360 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic, Hebrew
SyllablesIb-ra-him
First letterMalay Names starting with I
Arabic scriptإبراهيم
Devanagari scriptइब्राहीम
Malayalam scriptഇബ്‌റാഹീം

Ibrahim in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 2,047 · 10.1%
1950s
Boy: 4,360 · 9.9%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ibrahim as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Ibrahim

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Ibrahim · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  2. Wiktionary: Abraham · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Behind the Name: Abraham · behindthename.com · meaning

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