Abram is a boy's name of English origin meaning “exalted father in much later languages.” In 2024 it was given to 374 boys in the United States.
Abram at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
English & American
Meaning
“exalted father in much later languages”
About the name Abram
Abram belongs to the English & American tradition. Its meaning — “exalted father in much later languages” — is the sense carried by its English roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Abram first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #290 in 1881, and in 2024 374 babies received the name — 19,890 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.