Rahma

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Maroc

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɹəmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rahma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.6K
  • KEKenya≈1 in 6.1K

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.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
171 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 819 (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RahmaLatin(measured from records)
РахмаCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

Maroc

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rahma 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.

Where Rahma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia#207≈100,000 est.≈1 in 2.6KlistedRahma171
TZ Tanzania#126≈53,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Rahma29
MA Morocco—≈22,000 est.≈1 in 1.6KlistedRahma23
TN Tunisia#277≈14,000 est.≈1 in 819—Rahma25
KE Kenya#912≈8,800 est.≈1 in 6.1KlistedRahma32
ES Spain—3,1371 in 16K3.1KRahma17

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 id-github-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the swahili-book-names-zawawi-1993 register; the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rahma is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria

    Also written Rähmä, Ràhmà, Rãhmã, Râhmâ, Řahma

  • French given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Morocco, Tunisia

    Also written Ràhmà, Râhmà, Rãhmã, Râhmâ, Rãhmä

  • Spanish given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Philippines, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ràhmà, Ràhma, Řăhmă, Rãhmå, Ràhmã

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Raẖma, Raḥma

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Tanzania

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ŕâhmâ, Ráhmã, Ŕähmä

  • Swedish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Tanzania

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Řąĥmā, Râhmã, Řâhmâ

  • Estonian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Finland, United States, Tunisia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Ràhmà, Rähmä, Ŕaĥmä, Ŕáĥmá, Rahmą

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rahma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Rahma är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’barmhärtighet; medlidande’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Arabic, mercy; from Arabic raḥma

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, mercy, compassion

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • compassion

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In mkj, first-person dual exclusive possessive of ra

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1940196019802000Rahma Bourqia, b. 1949Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, b. 1959Rahma bint El Hassan, b. 1969Rahma Hassan, b. 1988Rahma Ali, b. 1988Rahma Tered, b. 1988Rahma Ben Ali, b. 1993Rahma Ghars, b. 1994Rahma El Adawy, b. 1998Rahma Tahiri, b. 1998

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)

Informalمرحباً Rahma،Hi Rahma, (English)

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 64 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Rahma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.1K#1,267
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3K#664
MA MoroccoListe des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list———
ID IndonesiaKPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub)———
KE KenyaWhat's in a Name (Zawawi, 1993)———

Reference works 6

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 Rahma mean, and where does it come from?
Maroc Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
In which country does Rahma have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 103 thousand people named Rahma in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rahma.
How do you pronounce Rahma?
A machine transcription gives /ɹəmə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
Is Rahma a male or female name?
Rahma 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.
How common is the name Rahma?
In Spain, the national register counted 3,137 people named Rahma, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Rahma compared with other names?
In Indonesia, Rahma is the 207th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.

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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, “Rahma” — the 207th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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