Rahima

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Рахима in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 3 more, รอฮีหม๊ะ in TH Thailand and Rakhima in UA Ukraine.

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 2 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◐

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

• French given name7.9K records spelled Rahima9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Philippines, Spain, India

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Ràhïmã, Rahîma, Ŕàhìmà, Rahimá, Ŕàhîmà

• Indonesian given name4.8K records spelled Rahima3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Rahima'

• a separate given name2.7K records spelled Rahima5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Ethiopia, United States, Morocco

  Also written Rahimā, Raḥīma, Rahīma, Raḣima

• Uzbek given name382 records spelled Rahima2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

  Also written Raḣima

• Amharic given name278 records spelled Rahima3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ethiopia, India, Philippines, United Kingdom

  Also written ራህማ, ራሂማ

43 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●

Rahima is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Arabic, kind, compassionate; fem. of Rahim. See Rahim (m.)

  as a name·A Dictionary of 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) — 98 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Safsaf Rahimab. 2003DZbadminton player

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 · 354 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rahima?

We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Rahima (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Rahima have the most bearers?

Rahima is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled rahima.

How common is Rahima compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Rahima is the 36th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Rahima a male or female name?

Rahima 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 Rahima mean?

Recorded meaning: kind, compassionate; fem.