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The first name 
Ibrahima

Ibrahima is a male first name.

When two boys called Ibrahima meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ibrahima is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Ibrahima. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ibrahima is #2,800 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ibrahima.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Ibrahima

Ibrahima -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Ibrahima is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 487 Americans in total bear this name. And these 487 men are located in only four states: Georgia, Maryland, New York and Ohio (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Ibrahima and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Ibrahima in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 30,251 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Ibrahima present.

Ibrahima has 8 letters 
and begins with an I

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With eight letters, the name Ibrahima is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with I that are quite popular, the most common at present is Isaac.

Other names with 
I, b, r, a, h, i, m and a

If you take all the letters in the name Ibrahima – I, b, r, a, h, i, m and a – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Abhirami.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ibrahima

If your name is Ibrahima 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...

This is how you spell the name Ibrahima

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ibrahima, you can simply say:

Igloo

Butterfly

Rocket

Apple

Hat

Igloo

Mouse

Apple

This is how the name Ibrahima is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Ibrahima in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Ibrahima

Ibrahima

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Ibrahima

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Ibrahima is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

I
B
R
A
H
I
M
A

Have you ever waved the name Ibrahima

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.

I
B
R
A
H
I
M
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Ibrahima sounds like this: