Rehma
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- REH-ma
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Rehma is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “mercy, compassion”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Rehma mean?
Arabic: spelling of Rahma
“mercy, compassion”
Shares its root with ar-Rahman, 'the Most Gracious', one of the names of God in Islam.
Is Rehma a girl's or a boy's name?
Rehma is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rehma in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 100% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Rehma, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 7 girls.
Half of all the girls named Rehma in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Rehma in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
Names like Rehma
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Rahma, Hafsa, Hiba, Ayah, Abeeha, Zainab, Huda, Khadija, Amira, Nusaybah, Rumaysa
Names related to Rehma
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Rehma: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rehma, updated 20 October 2026.