Rukaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- roo-KAY-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Rukaya is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Rukaya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ruqayyah
Ruqayyah was a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and Khadija, and wife of the third caliph, Uthman.
Is Rukaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Rukaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rukaya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,776among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 267% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Rukaya, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 9 girls.
2025 had more girls named Rukaya than any year since 2012.
Half of all the girls named Rukaya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 153 girls in the UK were given Rukaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #331, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Rukaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 4 | #3,310 |
Names like Rukaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Rumaysa Safiya Rahma Hafsa Abeeha Zainab Amira Khadija Halima Raha Nusaybah
Other spellings of Rukaya
Names related to Rukaya
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir 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, “Rukaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rukaya, updated 20 October 2026.