Rahme Surname
Approximately 2,127 people bear this surname
Rahme Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 477 | 1:64,687 | 9,689 |
| United States | 388 | 1:934,173 | 69,936 |
| Australia | 239 | 1:112,953 | 12,558 |
| South Africa | 222 | 1:244,044 | 24,925 |
| Canada | 126 | 1:292,425 | 27,191 |
| Brazil | 109 | 1:1,963,985 | 62,590 |
| United Arab Emirates | 74 | 1:123,814 | 10,355 |
| Sweden | 74 | 1:133,064 | 9,401 |
| Mexico | 67 | 1:1,852,630 | 18,093 |
| Indonesia | 59 | 1:2,241,512 | 136,522 |
| France | 58 | 1:1,145,219 | 121,886 |
| Kuwait | 48 | 1:79,181 | 9,331 |
| England | 31 | 1:1,797,357 | 72,927 |
| Argentina | 29 | 1:1,473,911 | 82,038 |
| Qatar | 19 | 1:124,105 | 14,725 |
| Venezuela | 17 | 1:1,776,710 | 22,419 |
| Mauritania | 14 | 1:292,490 | 12,957 |
| Lebanon | 9 | 1:626,343 | 14,059 |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1:25,306,108 | 327,793 |
| Gabon | 4 | 1:472,298 | 3,618 |
| Italy | 4 | 1:15,289,172 | 132,955 |
| Syria | 4 | 1:4,825,256 | 12,827 |
| Czechia | 4 | 1:2,658,367 | 127,801 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 1:30,929,142 | 67,786 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1 | 1:55,199 | 1,294 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 | 1:319,011 | 10,202 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | 1:2,789,927 | 129,797 |
The alternate forms: Rähme (49) & Rahmé (37) are calculated separately.
Rahme (1,333) may also be a first name.
Rahme Demographics
Average Rahme Salary in
United States
$55,499 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Rahme Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rahme Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Rahme (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺭﺣﻤﻪ, Marathi: रहीम) is more commonly found in Saudi Arabia than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Rähme or Rahmé. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Rahme? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 196,943rd most common last name on earth, borne by around 1 in 3,426,209 people. This surname is mostly found in The Americas, where 34 percent of Rahme live; 30 percent live in West Asia and 29 percent live in Arabian Peninsula. Rahme is also the 215,140th most prevalent first name internationally It is held by 1,333 people.
This surname is most numerous in Saudi Arabia, where it is held by 477 people, or 1 in 64,687. Outside of Saudi Arabia Rahme occurs in 53 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 18 percent reside and Australia, where 11 percent reside.
Rahme Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Rahme has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Rahme surname rose 2,156 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Rahme Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Rahme last name are 21.98% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 68.75% registered with the political party.
The amount Rahme earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 193.61% more than the national average, earning R 697,740 per year; in United States they earn 28.62% more than the national average, earning $55,499 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11% more than the national average, earning $55,147 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Rahme Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Rahme in the Marathi language | ||
| रहीम | rahima | - |
| Rahme in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺭﺣﻤﻪ | rhmh | 66.67 |
| ﺭﺣﻤﺔ | rhmt | 21.43 |
| ﺍﻟﺮﺣﻤﻪ | alrhmh | 9.52 |
| ﺍﻟﺮﺣﻤﺔ | alrhmt | 2.38 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Rahme
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