Roohi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ROO-hee
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Roohi is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “spiritual, of the soul”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
What does Roohi mean?
Arabic: Urdu and Persian name, from Arabic ruh 'soul'
“spiritual, of the soul”
Built on Arabic ruh 'soul, spirit', and used in Urdu-, Hindi- and Persian-speaking families.
Is Roohi a girl's or a boy's name?
Roohi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Roohi in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2020, with 4 girls.
Roohi in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
How popular is Roohi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,131among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 53% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Roohi, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 2015.
Half of all the girls named Roohi in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 104 girls in the US were given Roohi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,644, up from #7,131 for this spelling alone.
- Ruhi 89
- Roohi 15
Roohi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
Names like Roohi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Saanvi Aarvi Anvi Pranshi Vaani Aashvi Ridhi Dhanvi Prisha Shanvi Dhriti Sharvi
Other spellings of Roohi
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), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Roohi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/roohi, updated 20 October 2026.