boy's name

Avram

  • Gender Boy
  • Syllables 2
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 1,416

Ireland

#776

2024 births

Avram is a boy's name with 2 syllables. In 2025 it was given to 22 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2015, when 30 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 150,716 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1950.
  • 2 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.

Avram over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1950s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

219
'50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Avram by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1950s 64
1960s 64
1970s 104
1980s 114
1990s 103
2000s 150
2010s 219
2020s (to 2025) 119

How popular is Avram?

In 2025, Avram was given to 22 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Avram is used

Ireland #776 4 in 2024
Scotland #903 3 in 2024
France #1,426 25 in 2025
England & Wales #2,121 12 in 2025
Canada #3,188 6 in 2024
United States #4,688 22 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Avram

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Avram also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Avram over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Avram in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Armenian
Aram
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Ram

Sibling names for Avram

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Avram — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Avram

How popular is the name Avram?

In 2025, Avram was given to 22 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Avram a girl's or a boy's name?

Avram is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.

How many syllables are in Avram?

Avram has 2 syllables.

When was Avram most popular?

Avram peaked in 2015, when 30 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Avram a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Avram currently ranks #903 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.