Ruvarashe
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- roo-va-RAH-sheh
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Ruvarashe is a girls' name, meaning “flower of God”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Ruvarashe mean?
Shona (Zimbabwe), from ruva 'flower'
“flower of God”
A Shona name from Zimbabwe; ruva means 'flower' and -rashe refers to God.
Is Ruvarashe a girl's or a boy's name?
Ruvarashe 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 Ruvarashe in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 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, 6 girls in the UK were named Ruvarashe, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2005, with 13 girls.
2025 had more girls named Ruvarashe than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Ruvarashe in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Ruvarashe in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,695 |
| 2008 | 11 | #2,286 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 13 | #1,860 |
| 2005 | 13 | #1,807 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #2,436 |
Nicknames for Ruvarashe
- Ruva
Names like Ruvarashe
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha, Saanvi, Vaishnavi, Avneet, Anvi, Anya, Yashvi, Tanvi, Dhriti, Sanvi, Kashvi, Anvika
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, “Ruvarashe: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ruvarashe, updated 20 October 2026.