Rahmah

surname · Indonesian · Latin script

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

Rahmah is a surname, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Arabic رَحْمَة (raḥma).

rarermore common
  • 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

across 8 countries

2

recorded for this name

Sources
159

44K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 13K

Sweden

Spellings & scripts

RahmaLatin · Indonesian38K records
РахмаCyrillic · Russian113 records

Locally spelled Rahma in ID Indonesia, TZ Tanzania, US United States and 21 more 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

Ultimately from Arabic رَحْمَة (raḥma).

Sources 1

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Rahmah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia#21862,25012K rec.listedRahma159
TZ Tanzania#1336,5142.9K rec.Rahma29
ES Spain3,137873 rec.1 in 16K3.1KRahma19
MY Malaysia3,0636.9K rec.1.8KRahmah41
PH Philippines3,0012.7K rec.Rahma17
FR France2,8451 rec.1 in 24K2.8K2
US United States1,9043.5K rec.1 in 175K1.9KRahma116
KE Kenya#9791,754938 rec.listedRahma30
TN Tunisia#2261,6121.7K rec.Rahma24
MA Morocco#8761,5401.7K rec.listedRahma22
NG Nigeria1,0011.6K rec.Rahma32
GB United Kingdom775594 rec.3Rahma51

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

Languages

  • Indonesian30K93%
  • Malay5752%
  • English4751%
  • Arabic4031%
  • Chinese641%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Indonesian30,02993%
Malay5752%
English4751%
Arabic4031%
Chinese641%

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

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

  • Portuguese surname669 records spelled Rahmah3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Raḥmah

  • Turkish surname494 records spelled Rahmah3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Rähmâh

  • Bangla surname207 records spelled Rahmah3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Bangladesh

    Also written রাহমাহ, রহমাহ

  • a separate surname193 records spelled Rahmah2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Raḥmah

  • French given name129 records spelled Rahmah26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Morocco

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Rahma, Ràhmà, Râhmà, Rãhmã, Rãhmä

38 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

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Rahmah in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1999–2025
Yearrecords
19995
20027
20058
20067
20087
20096
20105
20127
20139
20148
201516
201617
201714
201811
201913
202013
20219
20226
20239
202418
202523

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)21 years between 1999–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence

Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Rahmah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)1.8K
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020269#31,690
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)43#14,988
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201934
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202032
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201832
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)31#15,017
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201727
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202523
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201622
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201519
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202418

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 71 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rahmah?
We estimate roughly 9.3 thousand people bear Rahmah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Rahmah have the most bearers?
Rahmah is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled rahma.
How common is Rahmah compared with other names?
In Indonesia, Rahmah is the 218th most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
What does the name Rahmah mean?
Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Arabic رَحْمَة (raḥma).
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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, “Rahmah” — the 218th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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