Abram Forename
16,680th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 56,422 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa
Abram Forename Definition:
See Abraham, of which it is, in England and Holland, also a contraction. It is doubtful if the word has ever, in its literally sense, been used in England.
Abram Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 100% | 30,738 | 1:1,774 | 276 |
| United States | 100% | 6,544 | 1:55,400 | 3,009 |
| Mexico | 100% | 1,778 | 1:69,823 | 2,171 |
| Egypt | 92% | 1,583 | 1:58,055 | 3,167 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,533 | 1:168,274 | 16,984 |
| Zambia | - | 1,506 | 1:10,528 | 1,139 |
| Russia | 99% | 1,391 | 1:103,691 | 1,950 |
| Uganda | 99% | 1,258 | 1:32,557 | 2,247 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,031 | 1:93,771 | 2,043 |
| Canada | 100% | 933 | 1:35,513 | 2,667 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 889 | 1:51,181 | 585 |
| DR Congo | 98% | 712 | 1:103,690 | 5,483 |
| India | 99% | 512 | 1:2,372,809 | 116,977 |
| Papua New Guinea | 97% | 481 | 1:16,949 | 1,688 |
| Botswana | 100% | 411 | 1:5,315 | 882 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 388 | 1:79,346 | 2,474 |
| Philippines | 99% | 381 | 1:278,240 | 11,137 |
| Brazil | 100% | 371 | 1:577,456 | 18,090 |
| Nigeria | 97% | 337 | 1:526,897 | 16,262 |
| Israel | 99% | 314 | 1:26,761 | 2,220 |
| Paraguay | 99% | 279 | 1:25,938 | 1,436 |
| Georgia | 100% | 273 | 1:13,694 | 1,126 |
| Iraq | 100% | 222 | 1:157,738 | 3,069 |
| Malawi | 100% | 212 | 1:80,718 | 4,695 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 205 | 1:51,714 | 2,034 |
| Lesotho | 99% | 196 | 1:10,408 | 1,480 |
| Peru | 100% | 166 | 1:191,515 | 5,125 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 155 | 1:99,508 | 7,215 |
| Belize | 100% | 115 | 1:3,081 | 701 |
| Iran | 100% | 102 | 1:769,577 | 7,491 |
| Kenya | 100% | 100 | 1:463,071 | 13,315 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 98 | 1:172,470 | 6,952 |
| Argentina | 97% | 89 | 1:480,598 | 3,629 |
| Armenia | 100% | 84 | 1:34,747 | 1,539 |
| Kazakhstan | 97% | 84 | 1:211,272 | 4,602 |
| Belarus | 100% | 69 | 1:137,426 | 1,325 |
| England | 100% | 48 | 1:1,158,394 | 18,168 |
| Panama | 100% | 44 | 1:88,785 | 4,615 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 38 | 1:5,114,676 | 49,084 |
| Sudan | 100% | 36 | 1:1,050,194 | 2,907 |
| Liberia | 100% | 33 | 1:133,699 | 5,306 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 30 | 1:98,396 | 1,482 |
| Spain | 100% | 30 | 1:1,550,999 | 10,449 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 29 | 1:121,533 | 3,092 |
| Azerbaijan | 93% | 27 | 1:357,146 | 8,570 |
| Colombia | - | 26 | 1:1,837,651 | 16,034 |
| Croatia | 100% | 25 | 1:168,683 | 3,219 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 23 | 1:1,313,126 | 26,144 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 22 | 1:11,065 | 840 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 21 | 1:875,213 | 25,284 |
| Afghanistan | 58% | 20 | 1:1,631,176 | 16,044 |
| Scotland | 100% | 19 | 1:281,598 | 4,379 |
| Australia | - | 16 | 1:853,601 | 10,910 |
| Belgium | 100% | 16 | 1:718,128 | 9,982 |
| France | 100% | 16 | 1:4,154,396 | 18,164 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 16 | 1:1,903,121 | 56,176 |
| Greece | 100% | 15 | 1:728,970 | 8,230 |
| China | - | 14 | 1:97,575,413 | 64,568 |
| Estonia | 100% | 14 | 1:93,956 | 4,008 |
| Italy | 95% | 14 | 1:4,361,578 | 21,991 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 14 | 1:244,831 | 4,102 |
| Benin | 100% | 13 | 1:813,526 | 22,290 |
| Chile | 83% | 13 | 1:1,354,401 | 10,891 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 63% | 13 | 1:459,483 | 14,895 |
| Moldova | 100% | 13 | 1:273,934 | 2,181 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 13 | 1:462,949 | 8,230 |
| Sweden | 100% | 12 | 1:821,492 | 17,584 |
| Qatar | 100% | 10 | 1:236,960 | 22,379 |
| Ireland | 100% | 9 | 1:515,947 | 6,644 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 9 | 1:5,950 | 534 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 9 | 1:1,283,447 | 1,308 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 9 | 1:930,547 | 3,856 |
| Ivory Coast | 88% | 8 | 1:2,884,492 | 56,420 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 8 | 1:2,971,210 | 60,968 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 8 | 1:893,999 | 27,106 |
| Cameroon | 86% | 6 | 1:3,601,750 | 60,590 |
| Thailand | 100% | 6 | 1:11,677,636 | 152,954 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 6 | 1:226,903 | 11,844 |
| Honduras | - | 5 | 1:1,763,493 | 15,274 |
| Singapore | 100% | 5 | 1:1,257,411 | 16,611 |
| Ghana | - | 4 | 1:6,746,554 | 8,075 |
| Kuwait | - | 4 | 1:946,316 | 12,511 |
| Poland | 100% | 4 | 1:9,506,778 | 5,827 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 4 | 1:2,053,374 | 18,217 |
| Togo | - | 4 | 1:1,809,810 | 5,654 |
| Wales | 100% | 4 | 1:773,577 | 8,486 |
| Austria | 100% | 3 | 1:2,838,067 | 11,255 |
| Congo | 100% | 3 | 1:1,669,735 | 30,542 |
| Hong Kong | - | 3 | 1:2,584,242 | 11,307 |
| Iceland | - | 3 | 1:122,006 | 4,203 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 3 | 1:1,875,857 | 11,580 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 3 | 1:17,077 | 2,297 |
| Norway | - | 3 | 1:1,710,776 | 19,445 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 3 | 1:17,596,106 | 69,562 |
| Turkey | 100% | 3 | 1:25,933,903 | 52,822 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Cambodia | 50% | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Czechia | 100% | 2 | 1:5,328,081 | 8,108 |
| El Salvador | - | 2 | 1:3,170,893 | 11,665 |
| Haiti | - | 2 | 1:5,363,476 | 32,317 |
| Jamaica | - | 2 | 1:1,441,614 | 15,741 |
| Kosovo | - | 2 | 1:930,720 | 16,593 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Chad | 100% | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Denmark | - | 1 | 1:5,649,498 | 28,429 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1 | 1:10,431,270 | 30,761 |
| Ecuador | - | 1 | 1:17,726,919 | 31,775 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Finland | - | 1 | 1:5,483,183 | 25,487 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Japan | - | 1 | 1:127,986,057 | 94,066 |
| Jordan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Nepal | 100% | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1 | 1:30,812,565 | 27,537 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Serbia | 100% | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 1 | 1:580,957 | 8,641 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:109,747 | 4,493 |
Abram (23,646) may also be a surname.
Abram Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
See Abraham, of which it is, in England and Holland, also a contraction. It is doubtful if the word has ever, in its literally sense, been used in England.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Ay'-bram, a high father, the father of elevation. The son of Terah, born at Ur, a city of Chaldea, A. M. 2008. The account of this patriarch occupies a large part of the book of Genesis, and is intimately connected with both the Jewish and Christian dispensations. For the particulars we must refer to Gen. xii. xxv.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: father is exalted.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: Exalted father.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Abram Forename Popularity
Abram Demographics
Average Abram Salary in
United States
$39,668 USD
Per year
Rank:
257,408 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.0016178
Rank: 3,137 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
91.13%
Sample size: 3,362 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Abram Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Abram in the Russian language | ||
| Абрам | abram | - |
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