Rahaf

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rahaf is a given name, most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is the 88th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Turkish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rahaf är ett arabiskt kvinnonamn.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria1 in 971◐
  • KWKuwait1 in 1.1K
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 4.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.9K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
96 ●

59K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 15K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

RahafLatin · Arabic●44K records
РахафCyrillic · Russian●52 records

Locally spelled Рахаф in 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●

recorded in Swedish

Rahaf är ett arabiskt kvinnonamn. Betydelsen ’känslig’ har föreslagits.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Rahaf is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria#8834,29335K rec.——Rahaf26
TR Türkiye—12,74213K rec.——Rahaf17
SA Saudi Arabia#2164,7831.4K rec.——Rahaf89
KW Kuwait#1172,112970 rec.——Rahaf25
EG Egypt—1,442765 rec.——Rahaf44
JO Jordan#5681,022888 rec.——Rahaf51
IQ Iraq—903909 rec.——Rahaf16
US United States—8892K rec.1 in 374K889Rahaf96
FR France—692312 rec.——Rahaf59
SE Sweden—659△262 rec.1 in 15K659Rahaf15
NO Norway—52720 rec.—524Rahaf8
AE United Arab Emirates#881452305 rec.——Rahaf52

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic44K59%
  • Turkish10K14%
  • Hindi2.4K3%
  • English2.2K3%
  • Urdu1.7K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic43,90859%
Turkish10,28014%
Hindi2,4433%
English2,2023%
Urdu1,7082%

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◐

Rahaf is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name2.7K records spelled Rahaf4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Syria, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Řàháf, Ràhaf, Řahaf

  • Swahili given name2.2K records spelled Rahaf4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, United States, Morocco

    Also written Ŕahaf, Ŕãhäf

  • Finnish given name381 records spelled Rahaf3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Syria, Türkiye

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Rähaf

  • Bangla given name169 records spelled Rahaf3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, United States

    Also written রাহাফ

  • a separate given name78 records spelled Rahaf2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Raḥaf

31 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.

Over time●

010203040194019601980200036 · 1993

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Rahaf in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1926–2014
Yearrecords
19261
19311
19321
19343
19351
19361
19381
19392
19401
19412
19426
19431
19445
19452
194610
19477
19489
194912
19503
195111
195214
19536
195411
19557
19567
195713
195817
195931
196012
196119
196226
196320
196423
196511
196616
196719
196820
196925
197015
197110
197212
197316
197415
197516
197627
197724
197824
197920
198020
198122
198224
198324
198424
198525
198626
198722
198820
198922
199020
199123
199216
199336
199423
199517
19967
19976
19984
20144

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 68 years between 1926–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 40 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Rahaf
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020889#13,434
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—659#2,269
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020590—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—524#2,430
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—198#9,120
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—137#5,451
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—96#5,506
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—71#2,034
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202556—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—50—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202425#1,039
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)201820—

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 222 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rahaf?
We estimate roughly 1.9 thousand people bear Rahaf (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Rahaf have the most bearers?
Rahaf is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled rahaf.
How common is Rahaf compared with other names?
In Syria, Rahaf is the 88th most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.
Is Rahaf a male or female name?
Rahaf is a female 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 Rahaf mean?
Recorded meaning: Rahaf är ett arabiskt kvinnonamn.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Rahaf” — the 88th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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