Rehema
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Swahili/Kiswahili: 'compassion; mercy, grace'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɾɛhɛmɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rehema is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 142K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 367K
- USUnited States1 in 693K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 142K (inferred from the name graph)
480 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Swahili/Kiswahili: 'compassion; mercy, grace'
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rehema 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 480 | 1 in 693K | 471 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 72 | 1 in 142K | 72 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | — | Rehema | 63 |
| FI Finland | 7 | 1 in 796K | 31 | — | — |
480 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Rehema is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, mercy, compassion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Compassion
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
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)
- Rehema Ellisb. 1954USAmerican journalist
- Rehema Watongolab. 1960Ugandan politician
- Rehema Stephensb. 1969USAmerican basketball player
- Rehema Migillab. 1977TZTanzanian politician
- Rehema Nanfukab. 1986UGUgandan actress, director
- Rehema Nabanobab. 1986UGcyclist
- Rehema Kaberab. 1986RWRwandan kyokushin
- Rehema HassanKEKenyan politician
- Rehema Dida JaldesaKEKenyan politician
- Rehema NchimbiTZTanzanian politician
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 471 | #21,237 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 72 | #10,617 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 40 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 38 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #11,463 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 21 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Rehema a male or female name?
- Rehema 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.
- What does the name Rehema mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili/Kiswahili: 'compassion; mercy, grace' Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Rehema?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾɛhɛmɑ/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Rehema have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 480 people named Rehema, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rehema most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rehema is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 142 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rehema?
- In the United States, the national register counted 480 people named Rehema in 2020, about 1 in 693 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rehema?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rehemaThe 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, “Rehema”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.