Ruqayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- roo-KAY-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Ruqayah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Ruqayah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Ruqayyah
Ruqayyah was a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and Khadija, and wife of the third caliph, Uthman.
Meaning borrowed from Ruqayyah.
Is Ruqayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Ruqayah 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 Ruqayah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 48% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Ruqayah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 14 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ruqayah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 153 girls in the UK were given Ruqayah 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.
Ruqayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 14 | #2,061 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 11 | #2,393 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,992 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 10 | #2,354 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 9 | #2,226 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 9 | #2,040 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 4 | #3,310 |
Names like Ruqayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Zainab, Sumayyah, Nusaybah, Ayah, Safiya, Aaminah, Rahma, Rumaysa, Aafiyah, Abeeha
Other spellings of Ruqayah
Names related to Ruqayah
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, “Ruqayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ruqayah, updated 20 October 2026.