Rakiyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- rah-KEE-yah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Rakiyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
Where does Rakiyah come from?
Arabic: possibly a respelling of Raqiya or Ruqayya; exact root uncertain
Is Rakiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Rakiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rakiyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Rakiyah, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 41 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had more girls named Rakiyah than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Rakiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Rakiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 21 | #5,991 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,570 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,858 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,089 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,810 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,523 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,551 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
Names like Rakiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Zaniyah, Samiyah, Kaliyah, Jaliyah, Naziyah, Hadassah, Zakiyah, Zaliyah, Safa, Aziyah, Sariyah
Names related to Rakiyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Rakiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rakiyah, updated 20 October 2026.