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Rehman

Boys' name

Form of Rahman

Rehman has been given to 141 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 2003, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Rehman, 2016

1 in 612,000

Rehman over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rehman: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rahman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rehman means

Rehman is a form of Rahman.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rehman is used in Urdu.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rehman → Rahman. The family’s meaning is “merciful”, recorded in the naming reference for Rahman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rahman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 141 boys were recorded with the name Rehman between 1985 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2003; its best national rank was #5,208 in 2003.

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 Rehman?

Rehman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rehman 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rehman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rehmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rehman was born before 2002 — so the typical Rehman is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
141
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2000s — 50.4% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Rehman 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (15)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,208
2003

Spellings of Rehman

Rehman is not the most common spelling — Herman is, with 45.2% against Rehman's 0.05%.

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 Rehman is used

Across 1910–2025, Rehman was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,332,384 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Rehman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rehman around the world

Where Rehman 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
    1996–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1991–1998
    #422
    in 1998
  • France
    2007–2011
    #5,165
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2002–2006
    #2,447
    in 2006

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

Rehman 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
#5,208
2003
Peak year
2003
15 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
141
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rehman

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

RehaanTeomanGurmanFirmanSrimanWilmanRehmatOlmanUthmanOusmanNomanRymanSukhmanAhmanHilmanLeamanNumanKolemanOthmanSulemanSolimanDenmanRaymanBurman

Sibling names for Rehman

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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