Abdurrahman
Masculine · “servant of the Merciful”
Abdurrahman is servant of the Merciful — and ar-Rahman comes from the Arabic word for a womb.
How old is the name Abdurrahman?
Abdurrahman first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Abdurrahman alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,100 people named Abdurrahman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Abdurrahman most popular?
Abdurrahman peaked in 2014, reaching #2542 nationally. Today it ranks #2718, 176 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From rahm to Abdurrahman
The story of Abdurrahman
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim opens nearly every sura, and the divine name descends from the word for a womb — mercy conceived as a mother's relation to what she carries. A hadith holds this among the two names God loves best. Abd al-Rahman I founded the emirate of Córdoba. It is in current American use.
Meaning
servant of the Merciful
From the Arabic abd, 'servant', and ar-Rahman, 'the Merciful' — from the root r-h-m, which also gives rahm, 'womb'. A hadith names Abdullah and Abd al-Rahman as the names most beloved to God. The Arabic is documented.
How the name formed
- rahm
- abd ar-Rahman
- Abdurrahman
Related forms: عبد الرحمن · Abdul Rahman · Abdurrahman
Pronouncing Abdurrahman
ab-dur-rah-MAHN
Four syllables, stress on the last. Arabic gives the h a deep throat sound English lacks.
Nicknames for Abdurrahman
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
- 1982
- Most boys named
- 201448 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2542reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- +20.5%47 in 2025, from 39
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.
Abdurrahman in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- عبد الرحمن in Arabic — transliteration
- Abdul Rahman in English — spelling variant
- Abdurrahman in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Texas, Illinois.
Abdurrahmans among us
people named Abdurrahman are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 36,342 born in 2025 was named Abdurrahman
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Abdurrahman
- #2718
- Abdurrahman on the 2025 chart
- #866
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Abdurrahman went to 47 boys in 2025, but Abdurahman is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 62, which makes it the 866th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,852 places above the chart.
- Abdurrahman47
- Abdurahman15
About 1 boy in 27,550 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 36,342 for Abdurrahman itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Carold test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Abdurrahman's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carold climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carold's path sketches the road Abdurrahman is walking now.
Abdurrahman 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 Abdurrahman is headed
Abdurrahman 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.
Abdurrahman beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Abdurrahman in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That mercy and womb are the same root is a first-rate fact.
- That a hadith names it among the names God loves best is a genuinely good anchor.
- Abd al-Rahman I founding Córdoba is a first-rate historical bearer.
- Four syllables make it very long for everyday use.
- The abd element cannot be separated without changing the sense.
- Several transliterations are in circulation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Abdurrahmans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Abdurrahman are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Abdurrahman?
- Abdurrahman is the most-used spelling in US records — 47 of the 62 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Abdurahman.
- How popular is the name Abdurrahman in 2025?
- Abdurrahman ranks #2718 among US boy names in 2025, with 47 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Abdurrahman?
- About 1 in every 36,342 US boys born in 2025 was named Abdurrahman — 47 in all.
- Will my child share the name Abdurrahman with classmates?
- Abdurrahman will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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