Barakah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- BA-ra-ka
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
Barakah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “blessing”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).
What does Barakah mean?
Arabic
“blessing”
Barakah was the given name of Umm Ayman, who nursed the Prophet Muhammad as a child.
Is Barakah a girl's or a boy's name?
Barakah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Barakah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 229% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Barakah, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 14 girls.
Half of all the girls named Barakah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Barakah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
Names like Barakah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Ayah, Aaliyah, Safa, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Umaymah, Abeeha, Zainab, Aafiyah, Azeemah, Hafsa
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Barakah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/barakah, updated 20 October 2026.