Fun Facts About the Name Rehaan
- 349 babies named Rehaan: U.S. records list 349 babies given the name Rehaan from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Rehaan Mean?
Rehaan is a spelling variant of the Arabic word and name rayḥān (ريحان), a plant word whose literal sense is an aromatic herb. In everyday Arabic, rayḥān most commonly names basil (Ocimum basilicum) and similar fragrant plants, so the name's established meaning is "basil" or "fragrant herb." It belongs to the same root area as rīḥ, "wind," which is why the image behind the word is scent carried through the air; it is also often linked with rāḥa, "rest, comfort," a word of the same root cluster.
The word appears in the Quran in Surah Ar-Rahman (55:12), in the phrase wal-ḥabbu dhū al-ʿaṣfi war-rayḥān, usually rendered "and grain with husk and fragrant plants" or "...and basil." That verse is the main reason the word became a personal name in Muslim communities, and the customary reading of the name as "sweet fragrance" grows out of the plant's scent and its Quranic setting rather than from a separate etymology. The several transliterations in use - Rayhan, Rehan, Rehaan, Raihan, Reyhan - all represent the same Arabic word, with the doubled a in Rehaan marking the long ā at the end.
Rehaan Name History & Origins
The starting point is the Arabic common noun rayḥān, a word for basil and other aromatic herbs that was in ordinary use long before it became a given name. Its presence in the Quran gave it religious value, and as Islam spread the word traveled with it: Persian took it as ریحان (reyhān), and from Persian and Arabic it entered Urdu and other South Asian languages as ریحان / रेहान, where Rehan - and the fuller transliteration Rehaan - became established names used mainly for boys in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.
Turkish uses the form Reyhan, which is also the Turkish word for basil; there it is more often a female name, unlike the masculine South Asian Rehan and Rehaan. Early Islamic tradition records a woman named Rayḥāna, associated with the household of the Prophet Muhammad; the feminine form shares the same word, and details of her life differ among the sources that mention her. In South Asia, Rehaan's own development is simply that of a long-established plant word turned personal name, and its spelling varies freely with Rehan in the same communities.
How Popular is the Name Rehaan?
Rehaan has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2007. Its best rank was #3,573 in 2007.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,102 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #8,787 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #6,153 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2022 | #4,667 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2021 | #5,970 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #4,821 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2019 | #5,510 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2018 | #5,262 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2017 | #5,471 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2016 | #4,285 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2015 | #5,681 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2014 | #5,433 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2013 | #4,152 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2012 | #4,498 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2011 | #5,884 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2010 | #10,505 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2009 | #5,062 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2008 | #4,507 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 2007 | #3,573 | 30 | 0.0014% |
| 2006 | #13,577 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 2002 | #12,100 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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