Rukaiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- roo-KAY-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Rukaiya is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Rukaiya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ruqayya
Ruqayyah was a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and Khadija, and the wife of the third caliph, Uthman.
Is Rukaiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Rukaiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rukaiya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 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 UK were named Rukaiya, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2014, with 8 girls.
2025 had more girls named Rukaiya than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Rukaiya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2014. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 153 girls in the UK were given Rukaiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #331, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Rukaiya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 6 | #2,554 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #2,855 |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
Names like Rukaiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safia, Sumaiya, Humaira, Faiza, Salma, Habiba, Sabiha, Rabia, Fariha, Nafisa, Samiya, Samira
Other spellings of Rukaiya
Names related to Rukaiya
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) 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, “Rukaiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rukaiya, updated 20 October 2026.