Ar-Rahman

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Ar-Rahman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 500Kfew records
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 600Kfew records

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,900 people, est.

Record sources
79 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)

Indonesia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Arrahman in ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia, US United States and 3 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ar-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.

Where Ar-Rahman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈4,900 est.≈1 in 54KlistedArrahman79
MA Morocco≈72 est.≈1 in 495K—Arrahman4
MY Malaysia≈54 est.≈1 in 604K—Arrahman13
US United States≈7 est.≈1 in 47MlistedArrahman6
PH Philippines≈6 est.≈1 in 18M—Arrahman2
SG Singapore≈5 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Arrahman4

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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)

Ar-Rahman is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Arrahman, Ar-Raḥmān, Ar-Raḥman

  • Arabic surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria

    Also written Arrahman, Ar-Raḥmān, Ar-Rahmân, Ar-Raḥman, Arrahmãn

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Arrahman

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Arrahman, Ar-Raḥmān

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ar-Raḥmān

9 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19001920194019601980Aisha Abd al-Rahman, b. 1913Zillur Rahman, b. 1929Muhammad Habibur Rahman, b. 1930Ziaur Rahman, b. 1936Latifur Rahman, b. 1936Abdul Rahman, b. 1965A. R. Rahman, b. 1966Rahman, b. 1967Tarique Rahman, b. 1968Hasim Rahman, b. 1972
  • Aisha Abd al-Rahmanb. 1913EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian author and professor of literature (1913-1998)
  • Zillur Rahmanb. 1929BDnot in their usual name19th President of Bangladesh (1929-2013)
  • Muhammad Habibur Rahmanb. 1930BDnot in their usual nameChief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court (1930-2014)
  • Ziaur Rahmanb. 1936BDnot in their usual nameChief of Army Staff and President of Bangladesh (1936-1981)
  • Latifur Rahmanb. 1936BDnot in their usual nameBangladeshi politician and judge (1936–2017)
  • Abdul Rahmanb. 1965AFnot in their usual namestaff member for a Catholic non-governmental aid group
  • A. R. Rahmanb. 1966INnot in their usual nameIndian composer and musician
  • Rahmanb. 1967INnot in their usual nameIndian film actor
  • Tarique Rahmanb. 1968BDnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Bangladesh
  • Hasim Rahmanb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican boxer

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)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Ar-Rahman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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

In which country does Ar-Rahman have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Ar-Rahman in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arrahman.
How common is the name Ar-Rahman?
Mondonomo estimates about 4,900 people in Indonesia have Ar-Rahman as their first surname, about 1 in 54 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Ar-Rahman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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