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Rokia

Girl · ROH-kee-ah · Arabic

Rokia is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).

What does Rokia mean?

Arabic: West African (Malian) form of Ruqayyah

West African form of Ruqayyah, the name of a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.

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ROH-kee-ah

Is Rokia a girl's or a boy's name?

Rokia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Rokia in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,104among girls
Babies in 2025
9about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Rokia, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2004, with 10 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.

2025 had more girls named Rokia than any year since 2016.

Half of all the girls named Rokia in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

1995Busiest: 10 in 20042025
Rokia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20259#10,104
20246#13,472
20235#15,188
20227#12,237
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20176#14,120
20169#10,855
20150–
20146#14,552
20136#14,577
20125#16,863
20117#13,339
20105#16,985
20095#17,288
20086#15,399
20070–
20067#13,601
20055#16,455
200410#9,887
20030–
20020–
20016#13,514
20000–
19995#14,403
19980–
19975#13,719
19960–
19955#13,380

Names like Rokia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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