Rokhaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- roh-KY-ah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Rokhaya is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Rokhaya mean?
Arabic: West African (Senegalese) form of Ruqayyah
West African form of Ruqayyah, the name of a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Rokhaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Rokhaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rokhaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Rokhaya, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2005, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
2025 had fewer girls named Rokhaya than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Rokhaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Rokhaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Names like Rokhaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Inaya, Aaliyah, Amaya, Anaya, Raya, Aya, Amira, Sariyah, Alaya, Samira, Aliya, Sumaya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Rokhaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rokhaya, updated 20 October 2026.