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Rahima

#9,947 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Rahim

Rahima has been given to 210 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #9,947 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Rahima, 2025

1 in 332,000

Rahima over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rahima: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Rahim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rahima means

Rahima is a feminine form of Rahim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Rahima is a feminine form of Rahim. Rahim has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rahim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 210 girls were recorded with the name Rahima between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2015; its best national rank was #7,870 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,399 in 2020 to #9,947 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,903 in 2015 to #9,947 in 2025.

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.

How common is Rahima?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,947
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rahima sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rahima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rahimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rahima was born before 2015 — so the typical Rahima is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
210
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2010s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Rahima 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
−2,077
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−548
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,044
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2015 (15)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,870
2024

Spellings of Rahima

Rahima is not the most common spelling — Fatima is, with 44.9% against Rahima's 0.24%.

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 Rahima is used

Across 1910–2025, Rahima was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 296,168 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Rahima has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rahima around the world

Where Rahima 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1960–2024
    #2,826
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2008–2020
    #3,144
    in 2020

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

Rahima by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,947
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 548
Best rank ever
#7,870
2024
Peak year
2015
15 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
210
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Rahima

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

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Sibling names for Rahima

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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