Avrom as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Avrom

What is the meaning of the name Avrom ?

The baby name Avrom is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈæv.rəm/ (AV-rum).

Avrom is Hebrew in Origin.

Avrom is the standard Yiddish form of the Hebrew Avraham, the biblical patriarch renamed from Avram in Genesis 17. The name carries the covenantal meaning "father of multitudes," from Hebrew av "father" + hamon "multitude," while Avram itself means "exalted father." Yiddish phonology yields the rounded vowel in Avrom; related Yiddish variants include Avrum and the affectionate Avremel/Avremele and Avrumi. Cross-language counterparts are Hebrew Avraham, English Abraham and Abram, Arabic Ibrahim, Russian Avraam/Avram, Spanish/Portuguese Abraao, and Ladino Avraam.

Used widely among Ashkenazi Jews across Lithuania, Poland, Galicia, and the Russian Empire, Avrom appears in synagogue registers, ketubot, and civil records from the 18th to early 20th centuries. The name traveled with emigrants to North America, South Africa, and the UK, and endures in Hasidic and Haredi communities and Yiddish cultural circles. A noted bearer is the Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever.