Ruqayyah

What Ruqayyah means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1977, with 10 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ruqayyah?

US: Rising: up from #6236 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #512 in 2015, #483 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 33 girls got the name (#4265 that year). First in the US records in 1977.

How common

• About 1 in 48,705 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,089 baby girls in England and Wales 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 IL (0.11 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.08 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Ruqayyah is #4265 in the US and #483 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 Ruqayyah were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ruqayya25 US · 43 E&W
• Ruqaya12 US · 12 E&W
• Ruqaiya7 US · 9 E&W
• Ruqaiyah5 US · 8 E&W
• Ruqayah5 US · 5 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 Ruqayyah

Girls

• Oakley#156“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*
• Rowan#249“little red one”^*
• Vivian#70possibly “alive”^*
• Elaina#267Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #267 vs #951 in 2025
• Selah#216“to hang”^*

For a brother

• Aziel#186Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #186 vs #606 in 2025
• Saint#267From the word “saint”^*
• Jaxson#156Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1991, with 13 babies
• Messiah#207Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 5 babies
• Ryker#182Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #182 vs #1,066 in 2025
• Sawyer#122“one who saws”^*

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 Ruqayyah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.