girls:
208 births since 1971
#5508 (4th percentile)
boys:
100.5k births since 1880
#307 (93rd percentile)
overall:
100.7k births since 1880
#678 (91st percentile)
The name Abraham is the #678 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 100,720 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #307 (93.3% percentile) for all time with 100,512 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,508 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 208 births since 1971.
Abraham has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1971 for girls).
The name Abraham has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Abraham reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 83.2% percentile (ranked #156) with 1,275 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 1,275 births per million (ranked 83.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Abraham ranks #215 for boys (76.5% percentile) with 918 births per million, which is 72.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Abraham reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #819) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Abraham".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Abraham. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.1% confident that Abraham is pronounced as AY-bruh-ham, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-bruh-huhm, at 17.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EY1 B R AH0 HH AE0 M) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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