The Rahm surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,624 people carried this name — #17,385 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 181,800 people counted. That is up 2% from 1,586 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
376 people named Rahm live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 84 people named Rahm.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 20 people named Rahm live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
1,403 people named Rahm 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.
Who carried it
People named Rahm,
with a public archive behind them.
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Meinrad Rahm 1819–1847 · stenographer -
Olaus Claudii Rahm 1625–1678 · priest
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Henrik Rahm 1732–1799
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Georg Rahm 1756–1812 · politician
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Christina Rahm 1763–1837 · actor
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Adam Rahm 1783–1867 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rahm.
- 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
- Rahim 2,601 · 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
- Raimondo 819 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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