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Riham

Girl · ree-HAHM · Arabic

Riham is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “light, steady rain”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).

What does Riham mean?

Arabic: Arabic word riham

“light, steady rain”

Say it
ree-HAHM

Is Riham a girl's or a boy's name?

Riham is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Riham in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 12 girls.

Half of all the girls named Riham in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

2001Busiest: 12 in 20112021
Riham in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20214#4,864
20200–
20199#2,792
20180–
20174#4,967
20163#6,009
20156#3,777
20140–
20134#4,953
20128#3,148
201112#2,265
201010#2,540
200910#2,478
20085#4,065
20071#7,017
20065#3,724
20055#3,543
20040–
20036#2,877
20020–
20014#3,427

How popular is Riham in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,104among girls
Babies in 2025
9about 1 in 180,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Riham, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.

Half of all the girls named Riham in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

2003Busiest: 17 in 20152025
Riham in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20259#10,104
20245#15,288
20239#10,307
20226#13,586
20217#12,201
20209#10,245
20197#12,442
20187#12,459
20170–
201610#10,109
201517#6,974
201410#10,124
201312#9,031
20129#11,251
20117#13,339
20100–
20095#17,288
20080–
20070–
20067#13,601
20050–
20040–
20035#15,777

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