Rahman

26,383 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rahman in the 2020 census, making it the 1,308th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,300.

By the numbers

People: 26,383
Rank: 1,308th
How common: 1 in 11,300
Per 100,000: 8.8

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 Rahman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 84.5%
White, not Hispanic 6.4%
Black, not Hispanic 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Rahman

A. R. Rahman (born 1966)Indian composer and musician
Zillur Rahman (1929–2013)19th President of Bangladesh
Ziaur Rahman (1936–1981)Chief of Army Staff and President of Bangladesh
Tarique Rahman (born 1968)Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Aisha Abd al-Rahman (1913–1998)Egyptian author and professor of literature
Hasim Rahman (born 1972)American boxer
Abdul Rahman (born 1965)staff member for a Catholic non-governmental aid group
Muhammad Habibur Rahman (1930–2014)Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court

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

Surnames like Rahman

Also a first name

Rahman has been given to 1,286 American babies as a first name since 1959, peaking in 1976. 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.