Rayhan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sweet basil
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- France (INSEE, 2023): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Spain (INE): listed under both sexes
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/rˈajhan/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Rayhan is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- RERéunion≈1 in 28K
- NLNetherlands1 in 98K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rayhan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Raihan in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)sweet basil
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rayhan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #51 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Rayhan | 113 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Raihan | 3 |
| IN India | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 208K | 20 | Raihan | 67 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Raihan | 38 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Rayhan | 2 |
| US United States | — | 849 | 1 in 392K | 785 | Raihan | 132 |
| RE Réunion | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 5 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Rayhan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, ease, fragrant herb, sweet basil. Pi Soelesoes Yh la Glasotly casact! 43 Gall, "“Husked grain and scented: herb. Then which of the favours of your Lord will you deny?" (surat al-Rahmaan 55:12-13)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, ease, fragrant herb, sweet basil, comfort
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Muhammad Rayhan Nur Fadillahb. 2004IDIndonesian badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 785 | #14,014 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 64 | #14,014 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| RE Réunion | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) | 2023 | 5 | #386 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rayhan mean, and where does it come from?
- sweet basil Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Rayhan?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /rˈajhan/; in Bangla /rae̯ɔhan̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Rayhan a male or female name?
- Rayhan is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: France (INSEE, 2023): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Spain (INE): listed under both sexes; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Rayhan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 114 thousand people named Rayhan in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rayhan.
- How common is the name Rayhan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 849 people named Rayhan in 2020, about 1 in 392 thousand residents.
- How common is Rayhan compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Rayhan is the 51st most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rayhan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rayhanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rayhan” — the 51st most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.