Ruqayah
#16,799 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ruqayah has been given to 51 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #16,799 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Ruqayah, 2025
1 in 663,000
Ruqayah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ruqayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,799
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ruqayah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruqayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ruqayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruqayah was born before 2015 — so the typical Ruqayah is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 51
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.9% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Ruqayah 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −740
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.83×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2013 (7)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ruqayah
Ruqayah is not the most common spelling — Rayah is, with 55.3% against Ruqayah's 2.0%.
Ruqayah around the world
Where Ruqayah 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 & Wales1998–2025#4,201in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ruqayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ruqayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ruqayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.