Rahema
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ɾɑhema/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Rahema is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 188K(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 660K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.3Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rahema 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 655K | 29 | Rahema | 15 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Rahema | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Rahema | 10 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 609K | — | Rahema | 7 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Rahema | 5 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Rahema | 2 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Rahema | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 1 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Rahema?
- In Swahili /ɾɑhema/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Rahema a male or female name?
- Rahema 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.
- In which country does Rahema have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Rahema in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rahema.
- How common is the name Rahema?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 4 people named Rahema in 2025, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rahemaThe 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, “Rahema”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.