Entry № 8948 · Arabic origin

Ruqayyah Ruqayyah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Gentle, ascending"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "gentle, ascending".

Ruqayyah is a name of Arabic origin, meaning gentle, ascending.

Gentle, ascending — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

Ruqayyah
Transliteration
Ruqayyah
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Ruqayyah stands.

Ruqayyah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ruqayyahs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ruqayyah.

The number behind Ruqayyah.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ruqayyah reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.