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Rahim

#2,178 in 2025Boys' name

Kind, compassionate

Rahim has been given to 1,905 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #2,178 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Rahim, 2025

1 in 50,200

Rahim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rahim: meaning, origin, and history

Kind, compassionate

Arabic

What Rahim means

Rahim means “kind, compassionate”, associated with raḥīm.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic رَحِيم (raḥīm, “kind, compassionate”). The surname is predominantly found in Bangladesh.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rahim (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rahim is used in English, Maranao and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Rahim comes through Arabic رَحِيم.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tausug, Rahim is pronounced /ɾahim/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,905 boys were recorded with the name Rahim between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 66 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,337 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,744 in 2020 to #2,178 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,010 in 2015 to #2,178 in 2025.

How common is Rahim?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,178
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rahim 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 2025 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 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rahim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rahims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rahim was born before 1999 — so the typical Rahim is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,905
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (370).

Is Rahim 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
+812
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+566
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+832
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.69×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (66)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,337
1975

Spellings of Rahim

Rahim is not the most common spelling — Graham is, with 32.4% against Rahim's 1.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rahim is used

Across 2016–2025, Rahim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 59,820 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2Maryland1 in 25,000
  3. 3Virginia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Rahim around the world

Where Rahim 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
    1996–2025
    #811
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #395
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1966–2025
    #402
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rahim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,178
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 566
Best rank ever
#1,337
1975
Peak year
2025
66 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,905
Count in 2025
66

Names similar to Rahim

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

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Sibling names for Rahim

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

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