Surname IBRAHIM

People with the surname IBRAHIM in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 353 men and 193 women.

6 verified statements

male

353people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 60,050

female

193people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 111,711

Each 1-in-X is computed within its own dataset. The datasets are different sizes, so these two figures are not compared with each other.

How many people have this surname?

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How many people have this surname?

The PESEL register publishes two separate surname lists, male and female. We show each figure on its own and never add them up.

male

353 people were registered with the surname IBRAHIM (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

193 people were registered with the surname IBRAHIM (female) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.

How rare is this surname?

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How rare is this surname?

“1 in X” means that roughly one in every X people on this list has this surname. The bigger X, the rarer the name. The rank counts from the most common surname on the list.

male

about 1 in 60,050

#9,206 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 60,050 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname IBRAHIM on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

IBRAHIM (male) ranked 9,206 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #9,184ZIELENIEWSKI354
  2. #9,184ŻULEWSKI354
  3. #9,206IBRAHIM this surname353
  4. #9,230ADAMIUK352
  5. #9,230ALAM352

female

about 1 in 111,711

#16,951 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 111,711 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname IBRAHIM on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

IBRAHIM (female) ranked 16,951 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #16,879WOŁCZAŃSKA194
  2. #16,879ŻUCHLIŃSKA194
  3. #16,951IBRAHIM this surname193
  4. #17,039SERBIN192
  5. #17,039SUN192

Two places above and two below on the same list. Surnames with the same count share a place.

Where is it most often registered?

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Where is it most often registered?

The map and the list show the voivodeships where people with this surname have a registered permanent address. The brighter the colour and the longer the bar, the bigger the share.

male

Only 22.1% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.

Among the 78 people with the surname IBRAHIM (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 19.2% were registered in ŁÓDZKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 5.1% (4)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBELSKIE: 5.1% (4)LUBUSKIE: 5.1% (4)ŁÓDZKIE: 19.2% (15)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 6.4% (5)MAZOWIECKIE: 12.8% (10)OPOLSKIE: 5.1% (4)PODKARPACKIE: 6.4% (5)PODLASKIE: 5.1% (4)POMORSKIE: 3.8% (3)ŚLĄSKIE: 6.4% (5)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 6.4% (5)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 9.0% (7)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 3.8% (3)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–4%
  • 4%–8%
  • 8%–12%
  • 12%–16%
  • 16%–20%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
ŁÓDZKIE19.2%15
MAZOWIECKIE12.8%10
WIELKOPOLSKIE9.0%7
MAŁOPOLSKIE6.4%5
PODKARPACKIE6.4%5
ŚLĄSKIE6.4%5
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE6.4%5
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE5.1%4
LUBELSKIE5.1%4
LUBUSKIE5.1%4
OPOLSKIE5.1%4
PODLASKIE5.1%4
POMORSKIE3.8%3
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE3.8%3

female

Only 37.8% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.

Among the 73 people with the surname IBRAHIM (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 21.9% were registered in MAZOWIECKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 4.1% (3)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBELSKIE: 6.8% (5)LUBUSKIE: 8.2% (6)ŁÓDZKIE: 5.5% (4)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 6.8% (5)MAZOWIECKIE: 21.9% (16)OPOLSKIE: 8.2% (6)PODKARPACKIE: 6.8% (5)PODLASKIE: 5.5% (4)POMORSKIE: 2.7% (2)ŚLĄSKIE: 9.6% (7)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 5.5% (4)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 4.1% (3)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 4.1% (3)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–5%
  • 5%–10%
  • 10%–15%
  • 15%–20%
  • 20%–25%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
MAZOWIECKIE21.9%16
ŚLĄSKIE9.6%7
LUBUSKIE8.2%6
OPOLSKIE8.2%6
LUBELSKIE6.8%5
MAŁOPOLSKIE6.8%5
PODKARPACKIE6.8%5
ŁÓDZKIE5.5%4
PODLASKIE5.5%4
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE5.5%4
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE4.1%3
WIELKOPOLSKIE4.1%3
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE4.1%3
POMORSKIE2.7%2

How did this count change between editions of the list?

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How did this count change between editions of the list?

The PESEL register publishes its lists every year. We show the number of people with this surname on each edition, beside how the whole list changed. We say what changed, not why.

male

The number of people with the surname IBRAHIM (male) in the PESEL register changed from 191 on 30 June 2019 to 353 on 20 January 2026: +84.8%. The whole list changed by +6.7% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 103,978191
22 January 20201 in 99,895199
1 February 20211 in 94,726211
27 January 20221 in 87,461231
30 January 20231 in 78,226266
19 January 20241 in 73,345286
22 January 20251 in 66,340318
20 January 20261 in 60,050353

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

female

The number of people with the surname IBRAHIM (female) in the PESEL register changed from 129 on 30 June 2019 to 193 on 20 January 2026: +49.6%. The whole list changed by +6.5% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 156,971129
22 January 20201 in 153,184132
2 February 20211 in 145,779139
27 January 2022The publisher's file dated 27 January 2022 repeats the data of the previous edition, so it is not shown as an edition of its own.
30 January 20231 in 127,961167
19 January 20241 in 126,349170
22 January 20251 in 117,680183
20 January 20261 in 111,711193

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

What does this surname mean?

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What does this surname mean?

We give a meaning only when a scholarly work supports it. We don't guess.

We have no sourced meaning for this surname. We could not find it in any scholarly work we are able to cite here, and we do not guess at meanings.

Where does it appear in old print?

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Where does it appear in old print?

Polona, the National Library's digital library, searches its catalogue and the text of its scanned pages. We show how many results it returns for this word, and from which years.

The word IBRAHIM appears on 21,568 pages of works not under copyright and in 286 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 5 October 2026).

VerifiedDigital libraryPoland · Biblioteka Narodowa · 5 October 2026

These are search results for the word in any inflected form. Some may be another meaning of the same spelling, and they are not a count of people or of mentions of anyone's family.

Pages by date of publication
  1. before 1800102
  2. 1800–184910,343
  3. 1850–18995,256
  4. 1900–19181,864
  5. 1919–19392,358
  6. 1940 on1,591

Catalogue records by kind

  • Articles17
  • Books6
  • E-books3
  • Prints and drawings3
  • Periodicals2
  • Ephemera1

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa8,772
  • Paris2,405
  • Kraków1,577
  • Lwów1,473
  • Wilno1,224
  • Poznań1,139

Example pages in the public domain

„Ibrahim: Na iile głów liczysz?”

Tim, chłopiec murzyński : trzyaktówka1929 · p. 20 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„IBRAHIM (poufnie). Z czem ciebie przysłano?”

Pisma Juliana Moers z Poradowa. T. 3, Dramaty1937 · p. 206 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Ibrahim (poufnie). Z czem ciebie przysłano ? ALI. Jako widzicie, dla wezyra dary. IBRAHIM. Dary?”

Pisma Juliana Moers z Poradowa. T. 3, Dramaty1907 · p. 251 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

Who well known has this surname?

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Who well known has this surname?

We have not looked this surname up in Wikidata yet.

How do we know?

Sources on this page

  • Official data Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL · 20 January 2026 · CC0 1.0 · Dane pochodzą z rejestru PESEL, Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0) · dane.gov.pl
  • Digital library Biblioteka Narodowa — Polona · Polona, Biblioteka Narodowa · polona.pl
How to read these figures
  • Wykaz nazwisk męskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Surnames occurring once are not published; absence from the dataset is not zero.
  • The publisher does not state whether the split is by a person's sex or by the grammatical gender of the surname form. The datasets are therefore neither summed nor compared numerically.
  • The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
  • Wykaz nazwisk żeńskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Denominator: 21,197,537 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • The 1-in-X figure is rounded; the count of people is exact.
  • Denominator: 21,560,302 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • A permanent registered residence is an address in the register — not an actual address, and not information about a family's roots.
  • Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
  • Only 22.1% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.
  • Only 37.8% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.
  • The size of the list itself changes between editions, so beside the count we show the share of that edition's list (“1 in X”).
  • Polona's figures are search results for the word in any inflected form, in the catalogue and in the text of pages of works not under copyright; not every result is the surname.

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