Abraham
Meaning of Abraham
Abraham, pronounced AY-bruh-ham, springs from the ancient Hebrew Avraham—“father of many”—and still walks tall today, ranking comfortably in the U.S. Top 200 for decades. The name feels like a warm abrazo: steady, dignified, yet surprisingly playful (just picture baby Abe in a tiny top hat and beard!). Story whispers of the Biblical patriarch who counted stars to measure hope, so the name naturally carries leadership, faith, and big-dream energy. Nicknames such as Abe or Bram add a dash of modern salsa, while the full form keeps its grand, timeless rhythm. For parents seeking a name that blends heritage with heart, Abraham is a shining camino lined with possibility.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as AY-bruh-ham (/ˈeɪbrəhæm/)
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Notable People Named Abraham
| Abraham Lincoln, the 16th US president, led the nation through the Civil War, helped end slavery, and was assassinated in 1865. |
| Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who created the hierarchy of needs, taught at leading universities, emphasized human strengths, and was the tenth most cited psychologist of the twentieth century. |
| Abraham Isaac Kook - Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook, or HaRav Kook, was an Orthodox rabbi, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine, a father of religious Zionism, and founder of Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva. |
| Abraham Kuyper, Dutch prime minister from 1901 to 1905, was an influential neo Calvinist pastor and journalist who founded the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which became the second largest Reformed denomination after the Dutch Reformed Church. |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish American rabbi and leading 20th century Jewish theologian and philosopher who taught Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary, wrote widely read books, and helped lead the US civil rights movement. |
| Abraham Pais was a Dutch American physicist and science historian who survived Nazi persecution in World War Two, worked with Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein, wrote influential books about them and modern physics, and later taught at Rockefeller University. |
| Abraham Ortelius, an Antwerp cartographer and geographer, created the first modern atlas in 1570, helped launch the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography, and was an early proponent of continental drift. |
| Abraham Henry Foxman is an American lawyer and activist who led the Anti-Defamation League from 1987 to 2015, now serves as its national director emeritus, and from 2016 to 2021 was vice chair of the Museum of Jewish Heritage leading efforts against antisemitism. |
| Abraham Zacuto, a Sephardic Jewish scholar from Castile, served as Royal Astronomer to King John II of Portugal before fleeing to Tunis. |
| Abraham Verghese is an Ethiopian American physician of Malayali descent, a Stanford medical professor and bestselling author, and cohost of the Medscape podcast Medicine and the Machine. |
| Abraham Alexander Ribicoff was a Connecticut Democrat who served in Congress, became the first Jewish governor of Connecticut, and later served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President John F Kennedy. |
| Abraham Walkowitz was a pioneering Russian American modernist painter tied to Alfred Stieglitz and the 291 Gallery, known for abstract cityscapes and thousands of drawings of Isadora Duncan. |
| Abraham Abe Lubin is a London-born American Conservative Jewish cantor, former president of the Cantors Assembly, and cantor emeritus at Congregation Beth El in Bethesda, Maryland. |
| Abraham Morris Lilienfeld was a pioneering Johns Hopkins epidemiologist who rose to chair the department, expanded the field to chronic diseases, championed the link between smoking and lung cancer, and is honored by the Abraham Lilienfeld Award. |
| Mathematician Abraham Robinson pioneered nonstandard analysis and devoted nearly half his papers to applied mathematics. |
