Abdirahman
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abdirahman is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Somalia it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Abdirahman är ett arabiskt namn sammansatt av → Abd- och rahman ’barmhärtig’.
- SESweden1 in 2.7K◐
- KEKenya1 in 5.7K
- FIFinland1 in 8.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.8K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 168 ●
- 1 in 2.7K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
37K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Абдірахман in KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and Абдирахман in KG Kyrgyzstan, RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Abdirahman är ett arabiskt namn sammansatt av → Abd- och rahman ’barmhärtig’. Namnet är ett av Allahs 99 olika namn.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #520 | 5,023 | 4.3K rec. | — | 3 | Abdirahman | 60 |
| SE Sweden | #683 | 3,789 | 2.4K rec. | 1 in 2.7K | 3.8K | Abdirahman | 43 |
| US United States | — | 2,918 | 16K rec. | 1 in 114K | 2.9K | Abdirahman | 168 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,140 | 1.4K rec. | — | 3 | Abdirahman | 80 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 1,907 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Abdirahman | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 807 | 532 rec. | 1 in 6.8K | 2.2K | Abdirahman | 43 |
| CA Canada | — | 736 | 375 rec. | — | 8 | Abdirahman | 51 |
| SO Somalia | #1 | 712 | 3K rec. | — | 277 | Abdirahman | 47 |
| FI Finland | — | 647△ | 94 rec. | 1 in 8.6K | 915 | Abdirahman | 18 |
| AU Australia | — | 612 | 892 rec. | — | 1 | Abdirahman | 47 |
| FR France | — | 500 | 654 rec. | — | — | Abdirahman | 60 |
| DK Denmark | — | 309△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 19K | 309 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili21K46%
- English8.2K18%
- Finnish4.1K9%
- Norwegian Bokmål2.2K5%
- 2K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 20,973 | 46% |
| English | 8,189 | 18% |
| Finnish | 4,078 | 9% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 2,242 | 5% |
| 1,959 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1957 | 4 |
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1962 | 4 |
| 1963 | 4 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 4 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 4 |
| 1969 | 12 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 16 |
| 1983 | 12 |
| 1984 | 17 |
| 1985 | 12 |
| 1986 | 14 |
| 1987 | 20 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 16 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 15 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 17 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 22 |
| 1998 | 23 |
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 22 |
| 2001 | 22 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 22 |
| 2004 | 23 |
| 2005 | 25 |
| 2006 | 28 |
| 2007 | 21 |
| 2008 | 29 |
| 2009 | 29 |
| 2010 | 22 |
| 2011 | 22 |
| 2012 | 18 |
| 2013 | 22 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 25 |
| 2016 | 18 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2025 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 63 years between 1957–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakrb. 596SAnot in their usual namecompanion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Abd ar-Rahman Ib. 731SYnot in their usual nameEmir of Córdoba from 756 to 788
- Abd al-Rahman IIb. 792ESnot in their usual nameEmir of Cordoba from 822 to 852
- Abd al-Rahman al-Sufib. 903IRnot in their usual namePersian astronomer (903-986)
- Abd ar-Rahman IVb. 1000ESnot in their usual nameCaliph of Cordoba
- Ibn Khaldunb. 1332TNnot in their usual namehistoriographer and historian
- Galal al-Din el-Suyutib. 1445EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian polymath, historian, sufi and jurist (1445–1505)
- Abdur Rahman Khanb. 1840AFnot in their usual nameEmir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901
- Tunku Abdul Rahmanb. 1903MYnot in their usual namefirst Prime Minister of Malaysia (1903-1990)
- Abdourahamane Tchianib. 1961NEnot in their usual nameNigerien army general and commander of the Nigerien presidential guard
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 46 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 336 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Abdirahman?
- We estimate roughly 8.8 thousand people bear Abdirahman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Abdirahman have the most bearers?
- Abdirahman is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled abdirahman.
- How common is Abdirahman compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Abdirahman is the 520th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Abdirahman a male or female name?
- Abdirahman is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Abdirahman mean?
- Recorded meaning: Abdirahman är ett arabiskt namn sammansatt av → Abd- och rahman ’barmhärtig’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abdirahman” — the 520th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.