Tahreem
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- tah-REEM
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Tahreem is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “sanctity, making sacred”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Tahreem mean?
Arabic: Arabic tahrim
“sanctity, making sacred”
Surah 66 of the Qur'an is called At-Tahrim, 'the Prohibition'.
Is Tahreem a girl's or a boy's name?
Tahreem is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tahreem in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 71% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Tahreem, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2013, with 9 girls.
2025 had more girls named Tahreem than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Tahreem in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Tahreem in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,587 |
| 2000 | 7 | #2,304 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 5 | #2,855 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
Names like Tahreem
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Safaa, Zainab, Reem, Rahma, Zaha, Hibah, Ilham, Ruqayyah, Farah, Hiba, Rahaf
Names related to Tahreem
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Tahreem: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tahreem, updated 20 October 2026.