Abdulrahman
Masculine · “servant of the Merciful”
Abdulrahman is servant of the Merciful — a compound of the Arabic abd with one of the ninety-nine names of God, and one of the two names the Prophet is reported to have called most beloved.
How old is the name Abdulrahman?
Abdulrahman first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Abdulrahman is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,900 people named Abdulrahman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Abdulrahman most popular?
Abdulrahman peaked in 2016, reaching #1216 nationally. Today it ranks #1564, 348 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
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Where it comes from
From abd al-Rahman to Abdulrahman
The story of Abdulrahman
Abd al-Rahman I escaped the Abbasid massacre of his family in 750, crossed North Africa alone, and founded the emirate of Córdoba that lasted nearly three centuries. The name is among the most-used in the Muslim world. Arab emigration brought it to America, where the run-together Abdulrahman spelling is standard in the registers and is in current use.
Meaning
servant of the Merciful
From the Arabic abd, 'servant' or 'slave', al-, 'the', and Rahman, 'the Most Merciful' — one of the ninety-nine names of God, from a root meaning womb, and so mercy of the deepest kind. The construction abd + a divine name is the classic Arabic theophoric pattern.
How the name formed
- abd al-Rahman
- Abdulrahman
Related forms: عبد الرحمن · Abdul Rahman · Abdurrahman · Abdurrahman
Pronouncing Abdulrahman
ab-dool-RAH-mahn
Four syllables, stress on the third. Arabic gives the h a distinct throat sound English does not have.
Nicknames for Abdulrahman
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
- 1978
- Most boys named
- 2016155 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1216reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- +12.4%109 in 2025, from 97
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.
Abdulrahman in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- عبد الرحمن in Arabic — transliteration
- Abdul Rahman in English — spelling variant
- Abdurrahman in Turkish — related form
- Abdurrahman in Indonesian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Texas.
Abdulrahmans among us
people named Abdulrahman are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 15,670 born in 2025 was named Abdulrahman
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 Rapheal test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Abdulrahman's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rapheal climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rapheal's path sketches the road Abdulrahman is walking now.
Abdulrahman is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Abdulrahman is headed
Abdulrahman should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Abdulrahman beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Abdulrahman in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent, theologically precise and undisputed.
- The womb-to-mercy etymology of Rahman is a genuinely striking detail.
- It is used across Arabic, Turkish, Malay and Indonesian naming.
- Four syllables and a spelling that has to be dictated every time.
- Abdul alone is a fragment that means 'servant of the' and is not a name on its own.
- The run-together and spaced spellings are both in use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Abdulrahmans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Abdulrahman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Abdulrahman in 2025?
- Abdulrahman ranks #1564 among US boy names in 2025, with 109 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Abdulrahman?
- About 1 in every 15,670 US boys born in 2025 was named Abdulrahman — 109 in all.
- Will my child share the name Abdulrahman with classmates?
- Abdulrahman will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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