İbrahi̇m
From Hebrew, the root behind the name Abraham, with the sense "father of many nations." Only about 280 men in Poland carry it, a name most Poles have never come across.
İbrahi̇m Pronunciation
İbrahi̇m is pronounced İBRAHKHİM (/i̇braxi̇m/).
What İbrahi̇m means
Where İbrahi̇m comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
İbrahim is the Turkish form of the Hebrew name Avraham, borne by the patriarch Abraham. The Hebrew tradition reads it as "father of a multitude of nations," and that sense followed the name from Hebrew into Arabic and then Turkish. The dotted capital İ marks the Turkish spelling. Same figure, three languages, one promise about descendants.
Among the people who have carried it, several belong to Ottoman history. İbrahim I ruled as sultan from 1640 to 1648. About a century later İbrahim Müteferrika opened one of the first presses in Istanbul to print books in Arabic script. The name attached itself to rulers and founders.
In a Polish class register today, İbrahim usually signals a Turkish or Muslim family, seated among the Kacpers and Zuzannas. It keeps its full shape. There is no Polish diminutive and no softened variant.
The meaning stays legible. Ojciec wielu narodów, father of many nations, is what the Hebrew said first and what İbrahim still says.
How many people are named İbrahi̇m
1 in 76236 men in Poland is named İbrahi̇m. 280 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1819 among male names.
İbrahi̇m as a middle name
İbrahi̇m is a first name for 280 men in Poland and a middle name for another 55, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1010th, between Ho (55) and Pal (55).
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#1008 Eugenio55
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#1009 Ho55
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#1010 İbrahi̇m55
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#1011 Pal55
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#1012 Rajnard55