The Rahim surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,601 people carried this name — #12,005 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 113,600 people counted. That is up 40% from 1,856 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Rahim surname
A surname from Arabic.
Borrowed from Arabic رَحِيم (raḥīm).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Rahim» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 83 people named Rahim.
Most of them — 51 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Seine-Saint-Denis.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 66 people named Rahim live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
52 people named Rahim live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
426 people named Rahim are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Rahim in American newspapers,
1901–1961.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,763 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Rahim,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jalaludin Abdur Rahim 1906–1977 · minister -
A. A. Rahim 1920–1995 · politician -
Soraya Rahim Sobhrang 1958– · human rights defender -
Tahar Rahim 1981– · actor -
Mushfiqur Rahim 1987– · cricketer -
Ibrahim Rahim 1916–2001 · screenwriter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 24 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rahim.
- Rago 2,093 · U.S. census
- Ragon 788 · U.S. census
- Rague 108 · U.S. census
- Ragusa 2,528 · U.S. census
- Rahal 614 · U.S. census
- Rahier 210 · U.S. census
- Rahm 1,624 · U.S. census
- Rahmani 1,056 · U.S. census
- Rai 5,295 · U.S. census
- Raia 1,559 · U.S. census
- Raimond 182 · U.S. census
- Raimondi 2,418 · U.S. census
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