Entry № 8627 · Swahili origin

Rehema Rehema — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ reh-HEH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Swahili
Meaning
"Mercy, compassion"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Swahili)

A name that means "mercy, compassion".

Rehema is the Swahili word for "mercy" or "compassion" — from the Arabic raḥmah, sharing the root with Rahman (Most Merciful), one of the 99 Names of Allah.

Rehema is widely used in East Africa.

Mercy. The Swahili-Arabic compassion.

The name in its native script.

Rehema
Transliteration
Rehema
Pronunciation
/ rəˈhɛ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rehema stands.

Rehema does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rehemas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rehema
Common in East African fiction.

Names connected to Rehema.

The number behind Rehema.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rehema reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.