Ruweyda
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- roo-WAY-dah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Ruweyda is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
Where does Ruweyda come from?
Arabic: spelling of Arabic Ruwayda, common in Somali families; exact sense uncertain
Is Ruweyda a girl's or a boy's name?
Ruweyda is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ruweyda in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ruweyda in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ruweyda in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 12 | #2,363 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 12 | #2,319 |
| 2011 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 2010 | 11 | #2,379 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 16 | #1,745 |
| 2007 | 6 | #3,396 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 10 | #2,206 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
How popular is Ruweyda in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Ruweyda, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Ruweyda in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ruweyda in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
Names like Ruweyda
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Rumaysa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Rahma, Amira, Khadija, Aaliyah, Liyana, Hiba, Halima, Ruqayyah
Names related to Ruweyda
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ruweyda: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ruweyda, updated 20 October 2026.