Fun Facts About the Name Reham
- 384 babies named Reham: U.S. records list 384 babies given the name Reham from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Reham Mean?
Reham is an Arabic feminine name usually explained as coming from the Arabic noun rihām (رِهام), which means "fine, gentle rain" or "light drizzle." The word is also applied to the thin, light clouds that carry such rain, so the literal sense behind the name is weather imagery: soft, sparse rainfall rather than a heavy downpour.
The Arabic root here is ر-ه-م (r-h-m), the root of rihām. It is a different root from ر-ح-م (r-ḥ-m), which gives raḥma (mercy, compassion) and raḥīm (merciful). Because Arabic hāʾ (ه) and ḥāʾ (ح) are both normally written as "h" in English, Reham is sometimes re-read as "mercy" or "compassion." That is a later, sound-based interpretation rather than the literal etymology of rihām.
Reham Name History & Origins
Reham belongs to a long-standing category of Arabic personal names taken from the natural world - rain, clouds, stars, plants, and animals. The common noun rihām is recorded in classical Arabic, where it describes light, fine rain and the thin clouds that produce it; poets used weather imagery of this kind, and words of that type regularly passed into personal naming. The feminine given name was formed from this noun and is used in Arabic-speaking countries from Egypt and Sudan to the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, as well as in non-Arab Muslim communities where Arabic names are common.
The name has no single fixed English spelling. Reham and Riham are the most frequent transliterations, with Rehaam and similar spellings also appearing; they represent the same Arabic name pronounced with a long a in the second syllable. The name is distinct from the related-sounding Rahma and Rahim, which come from the mercy root ر-ح-م and have their own separate history.
How Popular is the Name Reham?
Reham 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 2018. Its best rank was #6,466 in 2018.
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 | #14,551 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #10,076 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #10,976 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #7,221 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #7,554 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #8,833 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2019 | #8,511 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2018 | #6,466 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2017 | #6,747 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2016 | #7,901 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2015 | #7,204 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2014 | #7,572 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2013 | #8,072 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2012 | #8,538 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2011 | #9,037 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2010 | #12,047 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #13,418 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #9,954 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #12,440 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2006 | #10,459 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2005 | #8,755 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2004 | #12,489 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2003 | #11,131 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2002 | #17,509 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #14,913 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #9,022 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1999 | #14,022 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #13,736 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1997 | #15,558 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #10,309 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1995 | #10,284 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1994 | #10,300 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1993 | #13,043 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #10,233 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1990 | #9,044 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1987 | #12,741 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1985 | #10,309 | 6 | 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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