Rubab
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- roo-BAHB
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Rubab is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “white cloud”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Rubab mean?
Arabic: from Arabic rabab
“white cloud”
Rubab was the wife of Imam Husayn and mother of Sakina and Ali al-Asghar, revered in Shia Islam.
Is Rubab a girl's or a boy's name?
Rubab is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rubab in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 86% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Rubab, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Rubab in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Rubab in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
Names like Rubab
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab, Safa, Ayah, Rahma, Hiba, Hafsa, Rabab, Ruqayyah, Nusaybah, Safaa, Abeeha, Aaliyah
Names related to Rubab
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Rubab: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rubab, updated 20 October 2026.