How Many People Are Named Rahim?
people named Rahim are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 185,954 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,905 babies named Rahim in Social Security records from 1967 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
66 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "kind, compassionate" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition الرحيم (al-Rahim) is one of the 99 names of Allah.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Rahim in English. Counting Rahim and these spellings together, about 10,101 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Rahim in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Rahim alive today is about 25 years old, and 59% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 39 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Rahim first appears in the records in 1967, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 66 babies.
Babies given the name each year, 1967 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Rahim has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,337, in 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,178.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,178 |
| Best rank | #1,337 (1975) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #3,090 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Rahim alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Rahim were born in New York than in any other state: about 225 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rahim was given 7.1 times as often in New Jersey, 6.1 times in New York and 1.3 times in California.
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