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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 # 2,844 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 in Maryland, New York and Ohio

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Ibrahima, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in Maryland, New York or Ohio. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Ibrahima living in one state or another. (If your name is Ibrahima and you live outside of Maryland, New York and Ohio, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 30,937 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Ibrahima. So if your name is Ibrahima, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Ibrahima already makes you quite special.

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: