Rukaiyah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rukaiyah has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Rukaiyah, 1972
1 in 629,000
Rukaiyah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rukaiyah?
Rukaiyah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1972
- 1 in 629,000
- 5 of 3,142,796 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 304,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1972
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 435,685 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rukaiyah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1972 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 435,685 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rukaiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rukaiyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rukaiyah was born before 1972 — so the typical Rukaiyah is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Rukaiyah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (5)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Rukaiyah
Rukaiyah is not the most common spelling — Kaiyah is, with 68.9% against Rukaiyah's 0.28%.
Rukaiyah around the world
Where Rukaiyah 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 & Wales2000–2017#5,765in 2017
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Rukaiyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rukaiyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rukaiyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.