Abdul-Rahman
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘servant of the Merciful’ (al-Raḥmān, one of God’s names) (African Muslim Names)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries
/aɓɗulɾahman/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Abdul-Rahman is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name. Abdul-Rahman is also written อับดุลรอมัน in Thai.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 230(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 340
- KWKuwait≈1 in 610
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 Abdul-Rahman 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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 231 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Abdul-Rahman in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Abdulrahman in SY Syria, SA Saudi Arabia, NG Nigeria and 5 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.
How to pronounce Abdul-Rahman
- Swahili:/aɓɗulɾahman/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘servant of the Merciful’ (al-Raḥmān, one of God’s names).
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abdul-Rahman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #25 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | — | Abdulrahman | 208 |
| NG Nigeria | #390 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Abdulrahman | 78 |
| EG Egypt | #507 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Abdulrahman | 112 |
| SY Syria | #74 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 837 | — | Abdulrahman | 48 |
| YE Yemen | #24 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Abdulrahman | 65 |
| QA Qatar | #54 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 337 | — | Abdulrahman | 100 |
| KW Kuwait | #59 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 607 | — | Abdulrahman | 120 |
| US United States | — | 3,518 | 1 in 95K | 3.5K | Abdulrahman | 267 |
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)Abdul-Rahman 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.
Servent of God merciful
as a nameThe book of African 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
- 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).
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abdul-Rahman mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘servant of the Merciful’ (al-Raḥmān, one of God’s names). Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Abdul-Rahman?
- In the etymology graph, Abderrahim, Abderrahmane and Abdurakhman are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Abdul-Rahman?
- In Swahili /aɓɗulɾahman/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Abdul-Rahman a male or female name?
- Abdul-Rahman 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Abdul-Rahman?
- Mondonomo estimates about 153 thousand people named Abdul-Rahman in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abdulrahman. After it come Nigeria, Egypt, Syria and Yemen; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Abdul-Rahman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,518 people named Abdul-Rahman in 2020, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Abdul-Rahman compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Abdul-Rahman is the 25th most common given name of 64,319 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdul-rahmanThe 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, “Abdul-Rahman” — the 25th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.