Abraham comes from the Hebrew name Avraham, which means ‘father of many nations’. The name is derived from the Hebrew elements ‘av’ meaning ‘father’ and ‘hamon’ meaning ‘multitude’ or ‘many’.
Abraham is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Abraham isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Abraham ranks 172. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 13 were named Abraham. In the entire USA, approximately 91,283 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Abraham. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Abraham comes from the Hebrew name Avraham, which means ‘father of many nations’. The name is derived from the Hebrew elements ‘av’ meaning ‘father’ and ‘hamon’ meaning ‘multitude’ or ‘many’.
The name Abraham is most famously ... borne by the biblical patriarch Abraham in the Old Testament, who is considered the father of the Jewish people, and an ancestor of Jesus.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Abraham occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Abraham is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Abraham is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 91,272 men and boys of all generations bear the name Abraham – that is one in 1,829. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Hawaii, where one in 400 men and boys is called Abraham, while it is particularly rare in Wyoming, where you have to ask an average of 48,418 men for their name to get Abraham as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Abraham has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Abraham and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Abraham, you can simply say:
Apple
Butterfly
Rocket
Apple
Hat
Apple
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Abraham
Abraham
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
B
R
A
H
A
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
B
R
A
H
A
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Abraham sounds like this:
