Abdurrahman
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: variant of Abdulrahman, 'servant of the Merciful'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abdurrahman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 79th most common given name.
- SYSyria≈1 in 461(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 827
- NGNigeria≈1 in 7.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 461 (inferred from the name graph)
≈99,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Abdur-Rahman in US United States.
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)
variant of Abdulrahman, 'servant of the Merciful'
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Abdurrahman is read(measured from records)
Abdurrahman is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish88%
Rahmet sahibi olan Tanrı'nın kulu.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Arabic5.5%
variant of Abdulrahman, 'servant of the Merciful'
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abdurrahman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #79 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 827 | #96 | Abdurrahman | 108 |
| SY Syria | #51 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 461 | — | Abdurrahman | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Abdurrahman | 60 |
| AF Afghanistan | #132 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Abdurrahman | 8 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Abdurrahman | 63 |
| US United States | — | 868 | 1 in 383K | 865 | Abdur-Rahman | 140 |
| CY Cyprus | #290 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Abdurrahman | 10 |
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: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Abdurrahman is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
servant of the beneficent
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of 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)
- Abd ar-Rahman Ib. 731SYnot in their usual nameEmir of Córdoba from 756 to 788
- Abd al-Rahman IIb. 792ESnot in their usual nameEmir of Cordoba from 822 to 852
- Abd al-Rahman al-Sufib. 903IRnot in their usual namePersian astronomer (903-986)
- Abd ar-Rahman IVb. 1000ESnot in their usual nameCaliph of Cordoba
- Ibn Khaldunb. 1332TNnot in their usual namehistoriographer and historian
- Galal al-Din el-Suyutib. 1445EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian polymath, historian, sufi and jurist (1445–1505)
- Abdur Rahman Khanb. 1840AFnot in their usual nameEmir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901
- Tunku Abdul Rahmanb. 1903MYnot in their usual namefirst Prime Minister of Malaysia (1903-1990)
- Abdurrahman Wahidb. 1940ID4th President of the Republic of Indonesia (1940–2009)
- Abdourahamane Tchianib. 1961NEnot in their usual nameNigerien army general and commander of the Nigerien presidential guard
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 865 | #13,788 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 47 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #13,788 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2006 | — | #96 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Abdurrahman mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Abdulrahman, 'servant of the Merciful' Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Abdurrahman a male or female name?
- Abdurrahman is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Abdurrahman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 99 thousand people named Abdurrahman in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abdurrahman.
- How common is the name Abdurrahman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 868 people named Abdurrahman in 2020, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
- How common is Abdurrahman compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Abdurrahman is the 79th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdurrahmanThe 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, “Abdurrahman” — the 79th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.