Rahma
Rahma was given to 82 girls in 2025, #2,253 among girls’ names; 1,532 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Rahma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rahma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rahma mean?
Wiktionary, Swahili section
Rahma is “a female given name from Arabic” Its etymology gives the sense “mercy, compassion” (رَحْمَة).
Borrowed from Arabic رَحْمَة (raḥma, “mercy, compassion”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swahili section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rahma?
#2,253 among girls’ names, 2025
Rahma rose from #2,452 in 2015 to #2,253 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 42.0 to 51.0 per million.
97 babies in 2016, the peak
Rahma peaked in 2016, when 97 girls were given it, #2,049 among girls’ names. The 82 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,253 | 51.0 |
| 2024 | 83 | #2,261 | 51.2 |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,254 | 51.7 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,523 | 43.3 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,411 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,521 | 42.7 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,558 | 41.1 |
| 2018 | 75 | #2,414 | 44.1 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,421 | 43.4 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,049 | 54.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #2,452 | 42.0 |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,101 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,800 | 35.3 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,569 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,897 | 34.1 |
| 2010 | 57 | #3,003 | 32.1 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,851 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,399 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,643 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,906 | 20.5 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,785 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,580 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,198 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,724 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,752 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,496 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,411 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,297 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,565 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,978 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,265 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,281 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,166 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,374 | 3.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,496 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rahma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rahma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rahma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rahma, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,532 Americans ever recorded as Rahma. The median Rahma alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,921 people named Rahma (1,904 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,078 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 44 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 512 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 964 |
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 Rahma born?
The states with the most babies named Rahma are New York, Texas and Minnesota, with 74% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12 | #1,221 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 11 | #2,008 | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #817 | 5.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,366 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,411 | 0.1× |
Where Rahma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rahma is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1990 it was given 5.3 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 girls’ 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 Rahma 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 6,152 babies since 1880, Rahma is the most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 82 of their 166 babies (49%), again the 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 Rahma
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 Rahma and names like it
- Compare Rahma and RamaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRahma peaked in 2016.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rahma since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rahma: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Rahma.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rahma alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.