Rehan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: sweet basil; also used as intelligent

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɹɛhən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rehan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 4.9K
  • USUnited States1 in 178K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈220,000 people, est.

Sources
261 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

sweet basil; also used as intelligent

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rehan 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 Rehan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#232≈220,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Rehan116
BD Bangladesh—≈23,000 est.≈1 in 7.1K—Rehan46
SA Saudi Arabia#438≈7,000 est.≈1 in 4.9K—Rehan61
CN China—≈6,700 est.≈1 in 208K—Rehan9
AE United Arab Emirates—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Rehan40
US United States—1,8731 in 178K1.8KRehan261
KW Kuwait#723≈410 est.≈1 in 7.3K—Rehan22

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rehan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Rehan, Rêhan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rehān

  • Turkish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Pakistan, United States

    Also written Rèhán, Řěhâñ, Réhan

  • French given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, United States, Pakistan

    Also written Réhan, Řehan, Rèhan, Réhân, Rëhan

  • Spanish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Řehan, Rehañ, Rëhåñ, Ŕèhàñ, Ręhån

  • Danish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, India

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Réhån, Rêhåñ, Rehäñ

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, South Africa

    Also written Réhan

51 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rehan 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 Irish, An American synonym of Crehan

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

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)

1970198019902000Rehan Khan, b. 1974Muhammad Rehan Diaz, b. 1999Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto, b. 2000

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)

Informalनमस्ते Rehan जी,Hi Rehan, (English)

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 60 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Rehan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020687#35,309
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010341#59,324
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000228#78,035

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Rehan?
A machine transcription gives /ɹɛhən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Rehan mean, and where does it come from?
sweet basil; also used as intelligent Recorded by African Muslim Names.
Is Rehan a male or female name?
Rehan 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 Rehan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 219 thousand people named Rehan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rehan.
How common is the name Rehan?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,873 people named Rehan in 2020, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.
How common is Rehan compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Rehan is the 232nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.

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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, “Rehan” — the 232nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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