Avram
Hebrew in origin, from a root read as "exalted father". Almost unheard of in Poland: barely a hundred men carry it, but a small run of newborn boys since the early 2020s marks it as a name just starting to catch on.
Avram Pronunciation
What Avram means
Where Avram comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Avram comes from Hebrew, and it is the name the patriarch carried before he became Abraham. Scripture keeps both. In Genesis he is Avram until God renames him. The word splits into av, father, and ram, exalted. Read together they give "exalted father," the meaning Polish records as ojciec wywyższony.
The name stayed close to Jewish families across the Polish lands and further east. Where Abraham became the formal, ceremonial form, Avram kept the older shape, closer to the Hebrew than to any Latin or Greek retelling. A boy called Avram wore a name that pointed back to the first of the patriarchs.
Picture a school register in a prewar town. The teacher reads down the column and reaches Avram between an Antoni and a Bolesław.
The meaning was never mystical. Av and ram are ordinary Hebrew words, and their sum is plain: an exalted father, ojciec wywyższony.
How many people are named Avram
1 in 187247 men in Poland is named Avram. 114 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3175 among male names.
Avram's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1205 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Avram as a middle name
Avram is a first name for 114 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 94/6 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3776th, between Aviv (7) and Axl (7).
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#3774 Aviad7
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#3775 Aviv7
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#3776 Avram7
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#3777 Axl7
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#3778 Aykut7