Rahman

boys:

1.2k births since 1959

#3369 (26th percentile)

overall:

1.2k births since 1959

#6501 (16th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Rahman is the #6,501 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,240 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 16.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,369 (26.5% percentile) for all time with 1,240 births since 1959.

Rahman first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (first recorded for boys in 1959). Birth data for Rahman is available in 62 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For boys, Rahman reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 7.2% percentile (ranked #609) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 32 births per million (ranked 7.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rahman ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 44.6% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rahman".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
1,240
Peak Births
52
Peak Year
1976
First Recorded
1959
Peak Percentile
7.2%
Current Percentile
2.3%
Peak Rank
#609
Current Rank
#890
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Rahman

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Rahman. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 53.5% confident that Rahman is pronounced as RAH-muhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAH-mahn, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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RAH-muhn (2 syllables)
Verified
53.5% confidence
R AA1 M AH0 N
RAH-mahn (2 syllables)
14.0% confidence
R AA1 M AA0 N
RUH-muhn (2 syllables)
11.6% confidence
R AH1 M AH0 N
RAHH-muhn (2 syllables)
9.3% confidence
R AA1 HH M AH0 N
ruh-MUHN (2 syllables)
7.0% confidence
R AH0 M AH1 N
RA-muhn (2 syllables)
4.7% confidence
R AE1 M AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like R AA1 M AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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