Rahmah
Rahmah was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,519 among girls’ names; 218 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rahmah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rahmah?
#5,519 among girls’ names, 2025
Rahmah rose from #7,526 in 2015 to #5,519 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 14.3 per million.
23 babies in 2025, the peak
Rahmah peaked in 2025, when 23 girls were given it, #5,519 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 18 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,519 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,589 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,974 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,902 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,944 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,309 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,498 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,672 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,187 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,157 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,526 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,809 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,752 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,643 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,180 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,799 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,025 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,769 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,739 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,289 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,253 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rahmah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rahmah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rahmah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rahmah, and how old are they?
An estimated 217 Americans named Rahmah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 269 people named Rahmah (269 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 142 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Rahmah?
Rahmah is a less common spelling of Rahma: SSA has recorded 218 Rahmah and 1,532 Rahma since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,481 babies since 1880, Rahmah is the sixth most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 167 babies (14%), the second most given that year.
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 Rahmah
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 Rahmah and names like it
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