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Abdul Rahman name meaning

“servant of the Most Merciful”

Letters
11
Syllables
4
First letter
A
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 5.5%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s5.5%
1950s5%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Malay Names: AMeaning faithArabic origin

Abdul Rahman is a boy's name from Arabic meaning 'servant of the Most Merciful'.

What does Abdul Rahman mean?

Servant of the Most Merciful

In Malay: hamba Yang Maha Pengasih

#Faith#Kindness

Sources (2)

About the name Abdul Rahman

Abdul Rahman is the Malay spelling of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (عبد الرحمن), combining ʿabd ('servant') and al-Raḥmān ('the Most Merciful'), one of the names of God. Abdulrahman is another spelling. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 2,208 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
SyllablesAb-dul Rah-man
PartsAbdul + Rahman
First letterMalay Names starting with A
Arabic scriptعبد الرحمن

Abdul Rahman in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 1,122 · 5.5%
1950s
Boy: 2,208 · 5%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Abdul Rahman as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: عبد · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: رحمن · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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