Abdurrahim

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Abdurrahim has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1976. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Abdurrahim, 2002

1 in 623,000

Abdurrahim over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abdurrahim: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Abdurrahim means

Abdurrahim is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Abdurrahim is used in Albanian, Hausa and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hausa, Abdurrahim is pronounced /ʔàb.dùr.rà.hîm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 boys were recorded with the name Abdurrahim between 1976 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1976; its best national rank was #3,469 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Abdurrahim?

Abdurrahim had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002: 1 in 623,000; 6 of 3,737,275 births
Among boys only: 1 in 323,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2002: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 431,748 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Abdurrahim sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 431,748 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abdurrahim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abdurrahims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abdurrahim was born before 1977 — so the typical Abdurrahim is around 48 today.

Median birth year: 1977; About 48 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 59.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 40.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 27; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 59.3% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Abdurrahim rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1976 (10)
Years since peak: 49; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,469; 1976

Abdurrahim around the world

Where Abdurrahim ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1999–2021
#3,990
in 2021
France
2005–2022
#6,659
in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Abdurrahim by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,469; 1976
Peak year: 1976; 10 that year
First recorded: 1976
Last recorded: 2002
All-time count: 27
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Abdurrahim

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Abdurrahim

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Chanda Jason Cary Kevin Karie Brandee Sunshine Sommer

For a brother

Jamey Torrey Federico Giuseppe Tory Rodrick Delvin Demond

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