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Rehema

#7,068 in 2025Girls' name

Mercy, compassion

Rehema has been given to 204 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #7,068 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Rehema, 2025

1 in 207,000

Rehema over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rehema: meaning, origin, and history

Mercy, compassion

Arabic

What Rehema means

Rehema means “mercy, compassion”, associated with rehema.

Origin, language, and formation

Rehema is used in Swahili. Its origins include Arabic.

Rehema comes through Arabic رَحْمَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 204 girls were recorded with the name Rehema between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2023; its best national rank was #6,610 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,743 in 2020 to #7,068 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,540 in 2015 to #7,068 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rehema?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,068
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rehema 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rehema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rehemas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rehema was born before 2017 — so the typical Rehema is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
204
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2010s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Rehema 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
+807
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+7,675
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+11,472
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.9%
Peak was 2023 (18)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,610
2023

Spellings of Rehema

Rehema is not the most common spelling — Rhea is, with 31.5% against Rehema's 0.33%.

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 Rehema is used

Across 1910–2025, Rehema was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 379,245 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 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. Rehema has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rehema around the world

Where Rehema 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
    2001–2002
    #3,409
    in 2002
  • France
    2005–2025
    #3,896
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Rehema by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,068
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 7,675
Best rank ever
#6,610
2023
Peak year
2023
18 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
204
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Rehema

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

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Sibling names for Rehema

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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