Iqraa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- IK-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Iqraa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “read, recite”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Iqraa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Iqra
“read, recite”
Iqra, read, is the first word of the Quran revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, in the cave of Hira.
Meaning borrowed from Iqra.
Is Iqraa a girl's or a boy's name?
Iqraa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Iqraa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Iqraa, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1997, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Iqraa in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2003. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 171 girls in the UK were given Iqraa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #301, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Iqra 168
- Iqraa 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Iqraa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 9 | #2,040 |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,587 |
| 2000 | 7 | #2,304 |
| 1999 | 8 | #2,089 |
| 1998 | 8 | #2,110 |
| 1997 | 10 | #1,780 |
| 1996 | 9 | #1,862 |
Names like Iqraa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Faiza Saba Zaha Fatma Safia Aysha Ilham Hibah Habiba Safaa Farah Salma
Other spellings of Iqraa
Names related to Iqraa
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra
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, “Iqraa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/iqraa, updated 20 October 2026.