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Rahmat

Girls' name

Torture, torment, punishment, through رَحْمَة

Rahmat has been given to 14 babies in the U.S. since 2016. 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 2016, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Rahmat, 2017

1 in 511,000

Rahmat over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rahmat: meaning, origin, and history

Torture, torment, punishment, through رَحْمَة

Arabic

What Rahmat means

Rahmat belongs to the name family reached through Rahmat → رَحْمَة. Its meaning is “torture, torment, punishment”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rahmat is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Rahmat comes through Arabic رَحْمَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include رَحْمَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14 girls were recorded with the name Rahmat between 2016 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2016; its best national rank was #13,779 in 2017.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rahmat?

Rahmat had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rahmat 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 2017 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rahmat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rahmats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rahmat was born before 2016 — so the typical Rahmat is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Rahmat 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
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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 2016 (7)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,779
2017

Spellings of Rahmat

Rahmat is not the most common spelling — Rahma is, with 33.2% against Rahmat's 0.30%.

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.

Rahmat around the world

Where Rahmat 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
    2005–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    2016–2025
    #7,005
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019

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.

Rahmat by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#13,779
2017
Peak year
2016
7 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
14
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rahmat

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

RahmyaRahamaNehmatRahilaRaheelRahabRahleeRahiniRaheemRahelaRahmoRahkiaRahjaeNiyamatRahannaRahmaniRahimaRahniRahmahRahsaanRahjaRahwaRahniyahRaheemah

Sibling names for Rahmat

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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