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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Raheman

Merciful; compassionate

Raheman means “Merciful; compassionate”.

Origin language
Arabic / Urdu / Marathi
First letter
R
Historical records
6,067

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Raheman mean?

Raheman is a vernacular form of Rahman, from the Arabic root of mercy. Al-Rahman is a divine epithet, while the personal form is also used as an independent name.

Meaning themes

mercy

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

रहमान

Conventional spelling

Arabic

رحمن

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Raheman in Indian usage

6,067 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.

  • Recorded as female: 2,031 records (33.5%).
  • Recorded as male: 4,036 records (66.5%).

By birth decade

Raheman: records by birth decade1940s: 5151940s1950s: 8591950s1960s: 1,1931960s1970s: 1,4741970s1980s: 1,2781980s1990s: 3921990sOther decades: 356Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s515
1950s859
1960s1,193
1970s1,474
1980s1,278
1990s392
Other decades356

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Maharashtra5,876
Other states191
How to read these numbers

Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.

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Sources

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

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