How many Ruqayyas are there in the world?

No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Ruqayya are estimated to be alive in the US today.

How do you spell Ruqayya?

Ruqayya is one of 6 recorded spellings. Ruqayyah is the more common one — 33 births in 2025 against 25 for Ruqayya.

How popular is the name Ruqayya in 2025?

Ruqayya ranks #5099 among US girl names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.

How rare is the name Ruqayya?

About 1 in every 64,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Ruqayya — 25 in all.

Will my child share the name Ruqayya with classmates?

Ruqayya will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ruqayya

Feminine

#5099 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year

rare25 girls in 2025

Ruqayya entered the US charts in 1996 and is at its record high, #5099 in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.

How old is the name Ruqayya?

Ruqayya first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Ruqayya is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 200 people named Ruqayya are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Ruqayya most popular?

Ruqayya peaked in 2025, reaching #5099 nationally. Today it ranks #5099, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.

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What the data says

146 years of official birth records

The long climb, and where it stands now

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded: 1996
Most girls named: 202525 — the highest on record
Peak rank: #5099reached in 2025
Change vs 2024: +8.7%25 in 2025, from 23

Ruqayya sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2025, with 25 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Ruqayya in other languages

Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Georgia.

Ruqayyas among us

200

people named Ruqayya are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was named Ruqayya

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Ruqayya

#5099
Ruqayya on the 2025 chart: #873
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ruqayya went to 25 girls in 2025, but Ruqayyah, Ruqaya and Ruqaiya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 87, which makes it the 873rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,226 places above the chart.

Ruqayyah33
Ruqayya25
Ruqaya12
Ruqaiya7
Ruqaiyah5
Ruqayah5

About 1 girl in 18,474 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 64,291 for Ruqayya itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

Is it right for you

What happens to a name after it peaks

The Georgiamae test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ruqayya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Georgiamae climbed just as high around 1921, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Georgiamae's path sketches the road Ruqayya is walking now.

40%chance Ruqayya will feel “very 2020s” by 2040

Ruqayya, aligned on its peakGeorgiamae· peak 1921not yet written

Ruqayya today is about where Georgiamae stood in 1921 — in its own peak year. Within 15 years, Georgiamae had drifted out of the mainstream charts.

Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Ruqayya sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Ruqayya is headed

Ruqayya is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 100% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Rising+100% by 2030projected around #3,277 in 2030

Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Ruqayya beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Ruqayya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Ruqayyathis name25#5099Janette25#5099Loraine25#5099Delfina25#5099Hali25#5099

US girls given each name in 2025.

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Frequently asked

How many Ruqayyas are there in the world?: No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Ruqayya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Ruqayya?: Ruqayya is one of 6 recorded spellings. Ruqayyah is the more common one — 33 births in 2025 against 25 for Ruqayya.
How popular is the name Ruqayya in 2025?: Ruqayya ranks #5099 among US girl names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Ruqayya?: About 1 in every 64,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Ruqayya — 25 in all.
Will my child share the name Ruqayya with classmates?: Ruqayya will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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