Rahim
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rahim is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: womb, uterus (in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 902(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.3K
- USUnited States1 in 128K
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 Rahim 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 287 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 902 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Raheem in NG Nigeria, US United States, IQ Iraq and 1 more and Rohim in BD Bangladesh, MY Malaysia.
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)
womb, uterus (in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rahim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #243 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 902 | — | Rohim | 112 |
| NG Nigeria | #171 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Raheem | 68 |
| PK Pakistan | #133 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Rahim | 92 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Rohim | 57 |
| IQ Iraq | #303 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Raheem | 31 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #356 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Raheem | 56 |
| US United States | — | 2,601 | 1 in 128K | 5.6K | Raheem | 287 |
| GY Guyana | — | 451 | 1 in 1.7K | 451 | — | 3 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rahim is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Malay, womb; uterus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, merciful, compassionate, kind
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, merciful; compassionate
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, compassionate
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, compassion
as a nameAfrican Muslim 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)
- Rahim Huseynovb. 1936AZAzerbaijani politician (1936–2023)
- Rahim Gaziyevb. 1943AZAzerbaijani politician and political prisoner (born 1943)
- Rahim Ademib. 1954HRarmy general
- Rahim Aga Khanb. 1971GB50th Imam of the Nizari Isma'ili community (born 1971)
- Rahim Zaferb. 1971TRTurkish association football player (born 1971)
- Tahar Rahimb. 1981FRFrench actor
- Rakhim Chakhkiyevb. 1983RUnot in their usual nameboxer
- Mushfiqur Rahimb. 1987BDBangladeshi cricketer
- Christine and the Queensb. 1988FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer and songwriter
- Tobias Rahimb. 1989DKDanish singer and poet (born 1989)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 99 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,657 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,689 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 451 | #250 |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Rahim mean, and where does it come from?
- womb, uterus (in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rahim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 180 thousand people named Rahim in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rohim.
- How common is the name Rahim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,601 people named Rahim in 2010, about 1 in 128 thousand residents.
- How common is Rahim compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Rahim is the 243rd most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rahim?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rahimThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rahim” — the 243rd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.