Rahimah
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rahimah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. In Brunei it is the 80th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: compassionate; merciful;.
- MYMalaysia1 in 3.4K◐
- IDIndonesia1 in 69K
- BNBrunei1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 62 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 2 countries
recorded for this name
11K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled รอฮีมะห์ in TH Thailand.
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●
compassionate; merciful;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #225 | 18,947 | 8.6K rec. | — | — | Rahimah | 48 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,308 | 297 rec. | — | — | Rahimah | 62 |
| TH Thailand | — | 800 | 553 rec. | — | — | รอฮีมะห์ | 32 |
| US United States | — | 634 | 615 rec. | — | — | Rahimah | 55 |
| SG Singapore | — | 403 | 382 rec. | — | — | Rahimah | 20 |
| PH Philippines | — | 259 | 197 rec. | — | — | Rahimah | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 71 | 59 rec. | — | — | Rahimah | 20 |
| AU Australia | — | 61 | 58 rec. | — | 1 | Rahimah | 20 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 36 | 42 rec. | — | — | Rahimah | 8 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 24 | 15 rec. | — | listed | Rahimah | 13 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 19 | 25 rec. | — | — | Rahimah | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 15 | 6 rec. | — | listed | Rahimah | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay12K51%
- Indonesian3.2K14%
- English3.1K14%
- Chinese1.2K5%
- Arabic1.1K5%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 11,717 | 51% |
| Indonesian | 3,192 | 14% |
| English | 3,143 | 14% |
| Chinese | 1,201 | 5% |
| Arabic | 1,080 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Rahimah Stephensb. 1930MYMalaysian politician
- Rahimah Rahimb. 1955SGSingaporean-Malay singer and actress (born 1955)
- Rahimah MajidMYMalaysian politician
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 9 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #34,383 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | #29,368 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #132 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #19,897 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2013 | 1 | — |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #899 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1980 | 1 | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rahimah?
- We estimate roughly 6 people bear Rahimah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rahimah have the most bearers?
- Rahimah is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled rahimah.
- How common is Rahimah compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Rahimah is the 225th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Rahimah a male or female name?
- Rahimah 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 Rahimah mean?
- Recorded meaning: compassionate; merciful;
Query this name via API
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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, “Rahimah” — the 225th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.