Abdurrahman as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Abdurrahman

What is the meaning of the name Abdurrahman ?

The baby name Abdurrahman is a boy name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced ab-door-RAH-mahn.

Abdurrahman is Arabic in Origin.

Abdurrahman is a Latin-script form of Arabic ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, pronounced with assimilation as ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān. The earliest form belongs to Classical Arabic Islamic usage: ʿabd, from the root ʿ-b-d, denotes a servant, worshipper, or bondsman, while al-Raḥmān is a Qur’anic divine name. Raḥmān follows an intensive adjectival pattern from the Semitic root r-ḥ-m, associated with mercy and compassion, giving the compound the literal sense servant of the All-Merciful.

The name is recorded in the early Muslim community, notably ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, a Companion of Muhammad, and later among Umayyad rulers such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I of al-Andalus. Its use spread with Arabic across North Africa, Persia, South Asia, and Ottoman lands, where spelling and pronunciation shifted in local scripts. Common renderings include Abdulrahman, Abdelrahman, Abderrahman, Abd ar-Rahman, and Turkish Abdürrahman. In English-language records it remains a Muslim male name, with U.S. registrations concentrated from the late twentieth century onward.