Rahmatullah

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rahamatulla in IN India.

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●

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◐

Rahmatullah is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name11K records spelled Rahmatullah5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Rahmatullah', Ŕahmaťüllah, Raḥmatullāh

• a separate given name4.4K records spelled Rahmatullah4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States

  Also written Raḥmatulláh, Raḥmatullāh, Raḥmatullah

• French given name570 records spelled Rahmatullah2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Afghanistan, United States

  Also written Rãhmâtûllâh

36 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●

Rahmatullah is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Arabic, God’s compassion

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Arabic, mercy of Allah. An epithet of Muhammad (s). Guill Gal aSite a5lS p25 oil Gas, "The mercy of Allah and His blessings be upon you, O people of the house!" (surat Hud 11:73). Rahmat Allah al-Hindi: Indian scholar and author of Izhar al-Haqq.”*

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, mercy of Allah

  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) — 88 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Shahnaz Rahmatullahb. 1952BDBangladeshi singer (1952-2019)

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 · 167 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rahmatullah?

We estimate roughly 119 people bear Rahmatullah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.

In which country does Rahmatullah have the most bearers?

Rahmatullah is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rahamatulla.

How common is Rahmatullah compared with other names?

In Afghanistan, Rahmatullah is the 36th most common given name of 22,039 given names recorded there.

Is Rahmatullah a male or female name?

Rahmatullah is a male 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 Rahmatullah mean?

Recorded meaning: Mercy of God; Tanzanian spellings include Rehmtulla, Remtulla, Rhemtulla.