Rahim

Rahim is the 9,657th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,213 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 93,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,213
Rank: 9,657th
How common: 1 in 93,000
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rahim described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 54.2%
Black, not Hispanic 17.4%
White, not Hispanic 15.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 8.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Rahim

Tahar Rahim (born 1981)French actor
Mushfiqur Rahim (born 1987)Bangladeshi cricketer

People named Rahim with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rahim

Also a first name

Rahim has been given to 1,905 American babies as a first name since 1967, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.