Rahim is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “Merciful.” In 2024 it was given to 42 boys in the United States.
Rahim at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“Merciful”
About the name Rahim
Rahim belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “Merciful” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Rahim first appears in Social Security records in 1967. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1337 in 1975, and in 2024 42 babies received the name — 1,839 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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