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Ruqayyah

#4,334 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Ruqayya

Ruqayyah has been given to 552 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,334 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Ruqayyah, 2025

1 in 100,000

Ruqayyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ruqayyah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Ruqayya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ruqayyah means

Ruqayyah is a alternate transcription of Ruqayya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ruqayyah → Ruqayya. The family’s meaning is “rise, ascent or spell, charm, incantation”, recorded in the naming reference for Ruqayya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ruqayya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 552 girls were recorded with the name Ruqayyah between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,334 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,625 in 2020 to #4,334 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,416 in 2015 to #4,334 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ruqayyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,334
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ruqayyah 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruqayyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ruqayyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruqayyah was born before 2014 — so the typical Ruqayyah is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
552
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Choose a decade

2010s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (187).

Is Ruqayyah 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
+932
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,291
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,082
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.65×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (33)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,334
2025

Spellings of Ruqayyah

Ruqayyah is not the most common spelling — Sumayyah is, with 63.4% against Ruqayyah's 36.6%.

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 Ruqayyah is used

Across 1910–2025, Ruqayyah was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,007,481 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Ruqayyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ruqayyah around the world

Where Ruqayyah 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
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #5,779
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Ruqayyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,334
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,291
Best rank ever
#4,334
2025
Peak year
2025
33 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
552
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Ruqayyah

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

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Sibling names for Ruqayyah

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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