Rayhan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sweet basil
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/rˈajhan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rayhan is a given name 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 975(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 392K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11Kas Raihan
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 975 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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 US United States, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and 2 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
Sources 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 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 975 | listed | Rayhan | 113 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Raihan | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Raihan | 38 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 248K | listed | Raihan | 15 |
| US United States | — | 849 | 1 in 392K | 785 | Raihan | 132 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Rayhan | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Raihan | 28 |
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: 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)
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)
Attested in 50 sources 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 | — |
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?
- A machine transcription gives /rˈajhan/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Rayhan a male or female name?
- Rayhan 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 Rayhan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 167 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 2026-10-10.