Surname statistics for Rahman

There are approximately 43,473 people named Rahman in the UK. That makes it the 196th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 688 are named Rahman.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)43473196N/A688
United Kingdom (1881 census)4181523less than 0.001N/A
Change since 1881+43469+181327
Other Countries
United States107193102N/A40
Australia4493547N/A27

Politics

People with the surname Rahman are less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Labour.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Rahman are:

  1. Labour (7)
  2. Independent (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

Mohammed Rahman
Mohammad Rahman
Habibur Rahman
Azizur Rahman
Mizanur Rahman
Syed Rahman
Muhammad Rahman
Abdul Rahman
Mujibur Rahman
Mohibur Rahman
Ataur Rahman
Luthfur Rahman
Aminur Rahman
Mahbubur Rahman
Abdur Rahman
Hafizur Rahman
Muhibur Rahman
Motiur Rahman
Shahidur Rahman
Shah Rahman

Top female forenames

Syeda Rahman
Farida Rahman
Yasmin Rahman
Fahmida Rahman
Farzana Rahman
Farhana Rahman
Sadia Rahman
Fatima Rahman
Jasmin Rahman
Sabina Rahman
Nasima Rahman
Sara Rahman
Amina Rahman
Selina Rahman
Samina Rahman
Aysha Rahman
Nargis Rahman
Sharmin Rahman
Nadia Rahman
Nazma Rahman

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.