Rumaisah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- roo-MAY-sa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Rumaisah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Rumaisah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Rumaisa, itself a spelling of Rumaysa
A spelling of Rumaysa, a name of Umm Sulaym, the companion of the Prophet and mother of Anas ibn Malik.
Meaning borrowed from Rumaisa.
Is Rumaisah a girl's or a boy's name?
Rumaisah 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 Rumaisah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,101among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 11% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Rumaisah, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Rumaisah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 164 girls in the UK were given Rumaisah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #316, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Rumaisah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 1 | #5,152 |
Names like Rumaisah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Ruqayyah Ayah Aaliyah Safa Sumayyah Rufaidah Aafiyah Rahma Abeeha Umaymah Azeemah
Other spellings of Rumaisah
Names related to Rumaisah
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, “Rumaisah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rumaisah, updated 20 October 2026.