Ibragim
The hard-g form of Ibrahim, the same patriarch Jews, Christians, and Muslims share: Hebrew Avraham, read as father of a multitude. It reached Poland through Chechen and Tatar families, and every one of the roughly 240 people who carry it is a man.
Ibragim Pronunciation
Ibragim is pronounced eeb-RAH-geem (/ibˈragim/).
What Ibragim means
Where Ibragim comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ibragim reaches back to Hebrew, to the name Avraham, which readers of Genesis know as Abraham. The old form joins av, father, to a root meaning multitude, and Jewish tradition read it as father of nations, the head of many peoples.
Arabic reshaped the same patriarch into Ibrahim, and from that Arabic form, spreading across the Caucasus and the Volga, came Ibragim, written with a hard g. Among Chechen and Tatar families the name has been ordinary for generations. It belongs to the patriarch shared by Jews, Christians, and Muslims, the man promised more descendants than he could number.
On a Polish class register Ibragim would stand out among the Barteks and Zuzias. The name has no Polish nickname. At the urząd it keeps one fixed spelling, since it brought no diminutives or variants with it. What remains is the meaning that traveled from Hebrew through Arabic: father of a multitude.
How many people are named Ibragim
1 in 87844 men in Poland is named Ibragim. 243 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1987 among male names.
Ibragim's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Ibragim is most popular
Ibragim is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 boys born+510%
Ibragim as a middle name
Ibragim is a first name for 243 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7898th, between Ibo (2) and Icchak (2).
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#7896 Ibai2
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#7897 Ibo2
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#7898 Ibragim2
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#7899 Icchak2
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#7900 Ichiro2