Gender Masculine Usage Arabic Scripts عبد الرحمٰن(Arabic) Pronounced Pron. /ʕab.dur.raħ.ˈmaːn/ Meaning & History Means "servant of the merciful" from Arabic عبد ('abd) meaning "servant" combined with رحمن (rahman) meaning "merciful". This was the name of two early caliphs of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain.