Abdulrahim

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Абдул-Рахим in RU Russia, Абдулрахим in KZ Kazakhstan, อับดุลราฮิม in TH Thailand and Abdul-Rahim in GH Ghana.

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●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Abdulrahim is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name8.2K records spelled Abdulrahim2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia

  Also written Abdul-Rahim

• French given name584 records spelled Abdulrahim2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Nigeria, Türkiye, Syria

  Also written Abdul-Rahim

• Norwegian Bokmål given name229 records spelled Abdulrahim5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Tanzania

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Abdülrahim

• Persian given name188 records spelled Abdulrahim4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Afghanistan, Iraq

  Also written Abdülrahim

• Bulgarian given name127 records spelled Abdulrahim8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Syria, Bulgaria, Nigeria

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

  Also written Abdülrahim, Абдулрахим

• Chinese given name111 records spelled Abdulrahim2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Syria, Türkiye

  Also written Abdul-Rahim

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Abdulrahim is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Arabic, servant of the Compassionate

  as a name·African Muslim Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 77 years between 1919–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Raja Abdulrahimjournalist
• Sawsan AbdulrahimUSresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 168 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Abdulrahim?

We estimate roughly 639 people bear Abdulrahim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Abdulrahim have the most bearers?

Abdulrahim is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled abdulrahim.

How common is Abdulrahim compared with other names?

In Bahrain, Abdulrahim is the 45th most common given name of 2,246 given names recorded there.

Is Abdulrahim a male or female name?

Abdulrahim 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 Abdulrahim mean?

Recorded meaning: ‘Servant of the Merciful’ (al-Rahim).