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Abraham

in New Jersey

There are 788 people with the last name "Abraham" in New Jersey.

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Ranking in New Jersey

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Abraham 893
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  1. is 889th most common Boyce
  2. is 890th most common Gillespie
  3. is 891st most common Volpe
  4. is 892nd most common Kovacs
  5. is 893rd most common Abraham
  6. is 894th most common Almonte
  7. is 895th most common Fonseca
  8. is 896th most common Del
  9. is 897th most common Newton

Most Common First Names for Abraham

George, Thomas, Joseph, John, Susan, Anil, Annamma, David, Mary, Marie

Meaning & History

From the Hebrew personal name Avraham, borne by a Biblical patriarch revered by Jews as the founding father of the Jewish people (Genesis 11– 25), and by Muslims as founder of all the Semitic peoples, both Hebrew and Arab (compare Ibrahim). The name is explained in Genesis 17:5 as being derived from Hebrew av hamon goyim ‘father of a multitude of nations’. It was widely used as a personal name among Christians as well as Jews in the Middle Ages in diverse cultures from northern Europe to southern India. It is also found as a given name among Christians in India, and in the U.S. has come to be used as a family name among families from Kerala.

Irish: English name adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Mac an Bhreitheamhan ‘son of the judge’. See Mcbroom.

FOREBEARS A bearer of the surname Abraham, from Poitiers, is recorded in Quebec city in 1671.

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