Iqra

What Iqra means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Iqra yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #281 vs #1,467 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Iqra?

US: Rising: up from #2890 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #352 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 146 girls got the name (#1467 that year). First in the US records in 1990.

How common

• About 1 in 11,009 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,563 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,982 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MI (0.36 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.28 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.27 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Iqra is #1467 in the US and #281 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Iqra were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Iqraa0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Iqra

Girls

• Cecilia#108possibly “blind”^*
• Palmer#232“a pilgrim from the Holy Land”^*
• Maisie#233Diminutive of Margaret, meaning “pearl”^*
• Ivy#39From the word “ivy”^*
• Oakley#156“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Celine#207“heaven”^*

For a brother

• Walker#78Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #340 in 2015, #78 in 2025
• Myles#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #223 in 2015, #100 in 2025
• Shiloh#278Editor’s note Used for both: 53% of US babies named Shiloh in 2025 were boys
• Muhammad#239“praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Callum#118Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Adonis#241Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #698 in 2015, #241 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Iqra’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.