Abdulrahman

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled อับดุลรอมัน in TH Thailand and Abdul Rahman in MY Malaysia.

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 3 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◐

Abdulrahman is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name13K records spelled Abdulrahman13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Nigeria, Türkiye

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

  Also written Abdul-Rahman, Abdülrahman, Âbdûlrãhmâñ

• a separate given name4.3K records spelled Abdulrahman3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Iraq, Nigeria

  Also written Abdul-Rahman, ِAbdulrahman

• Russian given name3.3K records spelled Abdulrahman36 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Syria, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh

  Also written Абдулрахман, Абдул-Рахман, Abdulrakhman, Абдул Рахман, Abdul-Rahman

• Norwegian Bokmål given name2.8K records spelled Abdulrahman13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Tanzania, Syria

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Abdul-Rahman, Abdülrahman

• Finnish given name1.8K records spelled Abdulrahman4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Tanzania, Türkiye, Nigeria

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Abdul-Rahman

• Persian given name1.2K records spelled Abdulrahman6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria

  Languages: Persian, Tajik

  Also written Abdülrahman, Abdul-Rahman

• Pashto given name998 records spelled Abdulrahman3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Afghanistan, Syria, Malawi

  Also written Abdul-Rahman, Abdülrahman

• Polish given name699 records spelled Abdulrahman3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Türkiye, Syria, United States

  Also written Abdul Rahman, Abdul-Rahman

47 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●

Abdulrahman 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 Merciful'

  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) — 82 years between 1922–2015. 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 489 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Abdulrahman?

We estimate roughly 6.2 thousand people bear Abdulrahman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Abdulrahman have the most bearers?

Abdulrahman is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled abdulrahman.

How common is Abdulrahman compared with other names?

In Syria, Abdulrahman is the 58th most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.

Is Abdulrahman a male or female name?

Abdulrahman 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 Abdulrahman mean?

Recorded meaning: Abdulrahman är ett arabiskt namn sammansatt av → Abd- och rahman ’barmhärtig’.