Rahim

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rahim: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rahim: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #553 in 1999, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#553highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#818
1997	#809
1998	#585
1999	#553
2000	#773
2001	#654
2002	#781
2003	#633
2004	#655
2005	#716
2006	#960
2007	#902
2008	#894
2009	#1133
2010	#1344
2011	#1045
2012	#1229
2013	#976
2014	#1281
2015	#1786
2016	#1271
2017	#1178
2018	#1061
2019	#1083
2020	#1192
2021	#1329
2022	#1104
2023	#965
2024	#1595

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1595 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #818 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #553 among boys in England and Wales, in 1999 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Rahim appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 721 births with the name.

Rahim across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rahim's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#818 (1996)	#553 (1999)	#1595 (2024)	29 of 29	721 (1996–2024)	37 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#655 (2024)	#655 (2024)	#676 (2025)	2 of 2	8 (2024–2025)	4 (2024)

Rahim by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rahim in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	102	4 of 10	26
2000sbusiest	285	10 of 10	29
2010s	221	10 of 10	22
2020s	113	5 of 10	23

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 29 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rahim appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #553 in England and Wales in 1999.

Rahim's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1595	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#965	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1104	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1329	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1192	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1083	25	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1178	23	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1271	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1281	20	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#976	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1229	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1045	25	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1133	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#894	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#902	28	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#960	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#716	35	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#655	37	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#633	35	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#781	24	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#654	28	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#773	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#553	34	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#585	31	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#809	19	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#818	18	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #553, first reached in 1999.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 37 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Rahela · #663, 25y
Rahil · #1078, 29y
Rahima · #764, 28y
Rahma · #424, 45y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elliana · #555, 25y
Avi · #556, 30y
Hakeem · #550, 29y
Kareena · #556, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Fahim · #554, 28y
Zubair · #554, 29y
Elliana · #555, 25y
Jamil · #555, 29y

Rahim was ranked #553 in England and Wales · Boys in 1999. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rahim and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rahim without appearing here.

Rahim moved ahead of

Keith Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1786 and #1673 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1271 and #2804.
Gary Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1329 and #1329 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1104 and #2018.
Craig Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1178 and #1124 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1061 and #1786.
Calum Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1192 and #1192 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1329 and #1984.

Moved ahead of Rahim

Tadhg Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1281 and #1630 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1786 and #996.
Conan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #965 and #987 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #1025.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #965 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #1132.
Markus Compare
In 2023 they stood at #965 and #1108 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #1162.

Moved the opposite way to Rahim

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahim went from #818 to #1595 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahim went from #818 to #1595 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahim went from #818 to #1595 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahim went from #818 to #1595 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Rahim

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahim went from #818 to #1595 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahim went from #818 to #1595 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahim went from #818 to #1595 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahim went from #818 to #1595 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #553 in England and Wales in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rahim

Rahim at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rahim across 2 official records

Rahim by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Rahim across 2 official records

Rahim by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Rahim and the names beside it

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