Boy · Arabic
Raheem
Say it: rah-HEEM
Meaning
From Arabic raḥīm 'compassionate, merciful'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 7,792 babies given this name since 1964
- At its height in 1993, about 1 in 3,500 boys
- 178 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Rahim
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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