Rahima
given name · Latin script
Meaning: kind, compassionate; fem
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɑhimə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rahima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.8K
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 1.1Kas Rakhima
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 Rahima itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Рахима in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
kind, compassionate; fem. of Rahim
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rahima 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 | #94 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | listed | Rahima | 52 |
| AF Afghanistan | #92 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Rahima | 11 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #468 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 1.5K | Рахима | 39 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #462 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Рахима | 11 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Rahima | 17 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #253 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Рахима | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,137as Rahma | 1 in 16K | 3.1K | Rahima | 12 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Rahima 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 German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Arabic, kind, compassionate; fem. of Rahim. See Rahim (m.)
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)
- Safsaf Rahimab. 2003DZbadminton 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)
Attested in 58 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 261 | #7,343 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 226 | #3,709 |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Rahima a male or female name?
- Rahima is a female 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.
- Where does the name Rahima come from?
- kind, compassionate; fem. of Rahim Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Rahima?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɑhimə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Rahima mean?
- Recorded meaning: kind, compassionate; fem.
- In which country does Rahima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Rahima in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rahima.
- How common is the name Rahima?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,137 people named Rahma, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Rahima compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Rahima is the 94th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rahima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rahimaThe 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, “Rahima” — the 94th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.