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Rahmah name meaning

“mercy; compassion”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
R
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1940s: 7.1%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s7.1%
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Rahmah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: RMeaning kindnessArabic origin

Rahmah is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'mercy' or 'compassion'.

What does Rahmah mean?

Mercy; compassion

In Malay: rahmat; belas kasihan

#Kindness#Blessing

Sources (1)

About the name Rahmah

Rahmah comes from the Arabic word rahma, meaning mercy, compassion and pardon. The same word became rahmat in Malay. Other spellings include Rahma and Rachmah. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1940s with 1,828 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
Rootر ح م · r-ḥ-m
SyllablesRah-mah
First letterMalay Names starting with R
Arabic scriptرحمة

Rahmah in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 1,828 · 7.1%
1950s
not in the top 10
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 Rahmah 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)

Compound names with Rahmah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: رحمة · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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