Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic عَبْد الرَّحْمَٰن; its root is Arabic ع ب د.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Abdelrahman through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 659
- 659 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 34 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,253 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −42%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,253 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 34 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,356 as a first name in 2020; 1,888 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Abdelrahman’s family of names
In Arabic usage, Abdelrahman has a related form in ABDALRAHMAN. In English usage, Abdelrahman as a surname has a related form in ABDURRAHMAN. In English usage, Abdelrahman as a surname has a related form in ABDURRAHMAN.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Abdelrahman
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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