Ibrahim

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Hausa (Nigeria/Niger)

Meaning

the Islamic rendering of Abraham — Ibrahim being the Quranic name for the patriarch whom Islam considers the father of monotheism and the builder of the Kaaba in Mecca alongside his son Ismail; Ibrahim is called Khalilullah — the Friend of God — in the Islamic tradition and is one of the five supreme prophets; his story of willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God is commemorated annually in the festival of Eid al-Adha, one of Islam's two major holidays; among the Hausa Ibrahim is one of the most common masculine names, given with the aspiration that a son will embody the patriarch's qualities of absolute faith, hospitality, and the courage to abandon ancestral idolatry for the pure monotheism that defines the Islamic faith

Gender

male

Also spelled

Ibrahim, Ibrāhīm, Ibraheem