Abdirahman
Masculine · “servant of the Merciful”
Abdirahman is the Somali form of one of the oldest and most-used compound names in Arabic: servant of the Merciful. It is a two-word name written as one, and both halves matter.
How old is the name Abdirahman?
Abdirahman first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Abdirahman is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,200 people named Abdirahman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Abdirahman most popular?
Abdirahman peaked in 2013, reaching #1250 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 1,990 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Abd al-Rahman to Abdirahman
The story of Abdirahman
Arabic forms a large family of names by joining abd to one of the names of God, and Abd al-Rahman is among the oldest of them, in use since the first generation of Islam. Somali orthography, fixed in Latin letters in the 1970s, writes the compound as Abdirahman in a single word — a small national spelling of an international name. It reaches American records above all with Somali families, and Minnesota and Ohio hold many of them.
Meaning
servant of the Merciful
From Arabic abd, a servant or slave, and ar-Rahman, the Merciful — one of the divine names in Islam, built on a root meaning mercy or compassion. Somali writes the pair as one word with an i joining them.
How the name formed
- Abd al-Rahman
- Abdirahman
Related forms: Abdulrahman · Abdurrahman · Abdur Rahman · Cabdiraxmaan
Pronouncing Abdirahman
AB-dee-rah-MAAN
Four syllables with the main stress at the end. English speakers usually stress the first and shorten the rest.
Nicknames for Abdirahman
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1994
- Most boys named
- 2013141 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1250reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −26.5%36 in 2025, from 49
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Abdirahman in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Abdulrahman in Arabic — same name
- Abdurrahman in Turkish — same name
- Abdur Rahman in Urdu — same name
- Cabdiraxmaan in Somali — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: Minnesota, Ohio, Washington.
Abdirahmans among us
people named Abdirahman are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Abdirahman
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Mick test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Abdirahman's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mick climbed just as high around 1957, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mick's path sketches the road Abdirahman is walking now.
Abdirahman sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Abdirahman is headed
Abdirahman is easing off slowly — about 19% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Abdirahman beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Abdirahman in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a documented record reaching back to the earliest Islamic period.
- Abdi is a short form already in universal use, so the length is never a practical problem.
- It is recognized instantly across the whole Muslim world in one spelling or another.
- Ten letters and four syllables is a great deal for American forms and early handwriting.
- Abdulrahman and Abdirahman are the same name, and non-Somali relatives may use the other.
- The final syllable carries the stress in Arabic and Somali and loses it in English.
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Frequently asked
- How many Abdirahmans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Abdirahman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Abdirahman in 2025?
- Abdirahman ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Abdirahman?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Abdirahman — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Abdirahman with classmates?
- Abdirahman will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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