Rahman
Rahman was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,352 among boys’ names; 1,286 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Rahman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 15 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rahman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rahman mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Rahman is “a male given name from Arabic” Its etymology gives the sense “compassionate, merciful” (رَحْمٰن).
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish رحمن (rahmân), derived from Arabic رَحْمٰن (raḥmān, “compassionate, merciful”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rahman?
#4,352 among boys’ names, 2025
Rahman rose from #4,848 in 2015 to #4,352 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 14.1 per million.
52 babies in 1976, the peak
Rahman peaked in 1976, when 52 boys were given it, #1,206 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,352 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,008 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,185 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,658 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,963 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,996 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,504 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,314 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,301 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,283 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,848 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,660 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,117 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,913 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,142 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,963 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,258 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,853 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,158 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,639 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,506 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,826 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,108 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,286 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,202 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,328 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,702 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,834 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,320 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,760 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,070 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,476 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,333 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,270 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,585 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,916 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,758 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,484 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,439 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,820 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,040 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,792 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,551 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,196 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 44 | #1,446 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,756 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 36 | #1,620 | 20.9 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,561 | 22.5 |
| 1977 | 31 | #1,733 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,206 | 33.1 |
| 1975 | 43 | #1,338 | 27.5 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,739 | 17.8 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,768 | 16.7 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,671 | 17.3 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,527 | 8.5 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,480 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,283 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,870 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,408 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,465 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,831 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,475 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,931 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,432 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rahman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rahman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rahman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rahman, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,286 Americans ever recorded as Rahman. The median Rahman alive today is 31 years old; half are between 15 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,280 people named Rahman (22 women and girls, 1,258 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 348 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 272 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 279 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 88,472 babies since 1880, Rahman is the third most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 342 babies (7.0%), 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 Rahman
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Athanasios | 1,284 | |
| Anastasios | 1,029 | |
| Hakim | 2,361 | |
| Panagiotis | 1,320 | |
| Dimitrios | 2,682 | |
| Konstantinos | 2,122 |
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 Rahman and names like it
- Compare Rahman and RamonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRahman peaked in 1976.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rahman since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rahman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Rahman.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rahman alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.