Rahim
Rahim was given to 66 boys in 2025, #2,178 among boys’ names; 1,905 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Rahim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 11 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rahim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rahim mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rahim is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “kind, compassionate” (رَحِيم).
Borrowed from Arabic رَحِيم (raḥīm, “kind, compassionate”). The surname is predominantly found in Bangladesh.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rahim?
#2,178 among boys’ names, 2025
Rahim rose from #3,010 in 2015 to #2,178 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 20.3 to 38.6 per million.
66 babies in 2025, the peak
Rahim peaked in 2025, when 66 boys were given it, #2,178 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 42 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,178 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,990 | 24.4 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,722 | 28.1 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,856 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,014 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,744 | 26.1 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,037 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,567 | 27.5 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,292 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,046 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,010 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,668 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,038 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,508 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,839 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,783 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,057 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,471 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,172 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,435 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,213 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,197 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,599 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,066 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,296 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,050 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 28 | #3,006 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,057 | 24.1 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,533 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,168 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,480 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,662 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,073 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 45 | #1,828 | 22.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,449 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 36 | #2,070 | 17.5 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,749 | 22.0 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,827 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,156 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,041 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,054 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,507 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,780 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,575 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,799 | 17.9 |
| 1980 | 35 | #1,686 | 19.6 |
| 1979 | 36 | #1,619 | 20.9 |
| 1978 | 40 | #1,484 | 24.4 |
| 1977 | 34 | #1,632 | 20.7 |
| 1976 | 41 | #1,405 | 26.1 |
| 1975 | 43 | #1,337 | 27.5 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,684 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,969 | 14.1 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,914 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,898 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,599 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,017 | 5.6 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,931 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rahim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rahim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rahim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rahim, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,905 Americans ever recorded as Rahim. The median Rahim alive today is 26 years old; half are between 11 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 2,475 people named Rahim (25 women and girls, 2,450 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,579 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 317 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 475 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 491 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 552 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rahim born?
The states with the most babies named Rahim are New York, Texas and Virginia, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,272 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,870 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 8 | #856 | 0.3× |
| California | 6 | #2,400 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,504 | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 5 | #894 | 0.3× |
Where Rahim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rahim is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1967 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rahim with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,508 babies since 1880, Rahim is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 288 babies (23%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rahim
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rahim and names like it
- Compare Rahim and RaheemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRahim peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rahim since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rahim: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rahim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rahim alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.