boys:
16k births since 1954
#917 (80th percentile)
overall:
16k births since 1954
#2047 (74th percentile)
The name Ibrahim is the #2,047 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,041 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 73.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #917 (80.0% percentile) for all time with 16,041 births since 1954.
Ibrahim first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (first recorded for boys in 1954). Birth data for Ibrahim is available in 60 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Ibrahim reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 60.4% percentile (ranked #364) with 427 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 427 births per million (ranked 60.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ibrahim is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #380 (58.4% percentile) with 423 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ibrahim".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Ibrahim. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.1% confident that Ibrahim is pronounced as ih-brah-HEEM, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-BRUH-hihm, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IH0 B R AA0 HH IY1 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.
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