Rahma
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rahma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Maroc.
- IDIndonesia1 in 1.3K◐
- TZTanzania1 in 2K
- TNTunisia1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.3K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 159 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
44K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rahmah in MY Malaysia and Рахма 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●
Maroc
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #218 | 62,250 | 12K rec. | — | listed | Rahma | 159 |
| TZ Tanzania | #133 | 6,514 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Rahma | 29 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,137△ | 873 rec. | 1 in 16K | 3.1K | Rahma | 19 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 3,063 | 6.9K rec. | — | 1.8K | Rahmah | 41 |
| PH Philippines | — | 3,001 | 2.7K rec. | — | — | Rahma | 17 |
| FR France | — | 2,845△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 24K | 2.8K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,904 | 3.5K rec. | 1 in 175K | 1.9K | Rahma | 116 |
| KE Kenya | #979 | 1,754 | 938 rec. | — | listed | Rahma | 30 |
| TN Tunisia | #226 | 1,612 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Rahma | 24 |
| MA Morocco | #876 | 1,540 | 1.7K rec. | — | listed | Rahma | 22 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 1,001 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Rahma | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 775 | 594 rec. | — | 3 | Rahma | 51 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Indonesian38K22%
- Arabic38K22%
- French25K15%
- Spanish11K6%
- Swahili11K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 38,225 | 22% |
| Arabic | 37,830 | 22% |
| French | 25,150 | 15% |
| Spanish | 11,084 | 6% |
| Swahili | 10,960 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Rahma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Rahma är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’barmhärtighet; medlidande’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, mercy; from Arabic raḥma
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, mercy, compassion
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
compassion
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In mkj, first-person dual exclusive possessive of ra
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1969 | 4 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 4 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1982 | 4 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 4 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 4 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 4 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 4 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 4 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2021 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 37 years between 1969–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Rahma Bourqiab. 1949MAMoroccan sociologist
- Balaraba Ramat Yakubub. 1959NGnot in their usual nameNigerian author, screenwriter, and filmmaker
- Rahma bint El Hassanb. 1969JOJordanian princess (born 1969)
- Rahma Hassanb. 1988EGEgyptian actress
- Rahma Alib. 1988PKPakistani actress and singer
- Rahma Teredb. 1988TNTunisian woman handball player
- Rahma Ben Alib. 1993TNTunisian taekwondo athlete
- Rahma Gharsb. 1994TNTunisian association football player
- Rahma El Adawyb. 1998EGEgyptian badminton player
- Rahma Tahirib. 1998Moroccan long-distance runner
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 61 sources across 35 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 484 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rahma?
- We estimate roughly 9.3 thousand people bear Rahma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rahma have the most bearers?
- Rahma is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled rahma.
- How common is Rahma compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Rahma is the 218th most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
- Is Rahma a male or female name?
- Rahma 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 Rahma mean?
- Recorded meaning: Maroc
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rahma” — the 218th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.