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Rabia

#11,685 in 2025Girls' name

Spring

Rabia has been given to 862 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #11,685 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Rabia, 2025

1 in 414,000

Rabia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rabia: meaning, origin, and history

Spring

Arabic

What Rabia means

Rabia means “spring”, associated with rabīʕ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Arabic رَابِعَة (rābiʕa), the feminine of رَبِيع (rabīʕ, “spring”) as well as رَابِع (rābiʕ, “fourth”), from أَرْبَعَة (ʔarbaʕa, “four”). Hence Rabia means both "spring" and "the fourth female".

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rabia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rabia is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Rabia comes through Arabic رَابِعَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 862 girls were recorded with the name Rabia between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1997; its best national rank was #3,787 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,569 in 2020 to #11,685 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,001 in 2015 to #11,685 in 2025.

How common is Rabia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,685
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rabia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rabia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rabias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rabia was born before 1999 — so the typical Rabia is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
862
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (257).

Is Rabia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,264
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,116
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,684
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.7%
Peak was 1997 (30)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,787
1997

Spellings of Rabia

Rabia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 37.3% against Rabia's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rabia is used

Across 1910–2025, Rabia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 312,501 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rabia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rabia around the world

Where Rabia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1980–2016
    #798
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2003–2003
    #655
    in 2003
  • France
    1937–2025
    #1,608
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2014
    #545
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rabia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,685
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,116
Best rank ever
#3,787
1997
Peak year
1997
30 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
862
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Rabia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rabia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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