Rahila
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɾɑhila/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Rahila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic رَاحِيل (rāḥīl).
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 890(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.9Kfew records
- NGNigeria≈1 in 9K
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 Rahila 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 890 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Рахила in KG Kyrgyzstan, AZ Azerbaijan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)Borrowed from Arabic رَاحِيل (rāḥīl).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rahila 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 | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 858 | Rahila | 82 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Rahila | 45 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Rahila | 3 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 890 | 85 | Рахила | 7 |
| PK Pakistan | #404 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Rahila | 38 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Рахила | 10 |
| US United States | — | 870as Rahil | 1 in 382K | 681 | Rahila | 120 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Рахила | 8 |
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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)Rahila 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.
In Hausa, Rachel (biblical character)
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)- Raquel Welchb. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1940–2023)
- R. J. Palaciob. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican author (born 1963)
- Raquel Diazb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler, singer and model
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)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Rahila a male or female name?
- Rahila is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- What does the name Rahila mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic رَاحِيل (rāḥīl). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Rahila?
- In Swahili /ɾɑhila/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Rahila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Rahila in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rahila. After it come Nigeria, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rahila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 870 people named Rahil in 2020, about 1 in 382 thousand residents.
- How common is Rahila compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Rahila is the 404th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rahila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rahilaThe 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, “Rahila” — the 404th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.