Ruqaya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Subida, pendiente
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/ɾucaja/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Ruqaya is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 93rd most common given name.
- BHBahrain≈1 in 3.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- OMOman≈1 in 4.3Kfew records
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 13Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ruqaya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 named Rakiya, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rakiya in IN India, NG Nigeria and Ракия in KG Kyrgyzstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Subida, pendiente
Cited for this meaning 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ruqaya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | listed | Rakiya | 22 |
| IN India | — | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 150K | 9 | Rakiya | 23 |
| OM Oman | #225 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Ruqaya | 17 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Ruqaya | 38 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Ракия | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | #93 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Ruqaya | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 101 | 1 in 101K | 101 | — | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ruqayya bint Muhammadb. 598SAnot in their usual namedaughter of Muhammad
- Ruqaiya Sultan Begumb. 1542INnot in their usual nameEmpress consort of the Mughal Empire
- Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azadb. 1907IRnot in their usual nameIranian actress (1907–1994)
- Ruqaiya Hasanb. 1931INnot in their usual nameIndian linguist
- Ruqayya Sadatb. 1941EGnot in their usual nameeldest daughter of the late Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar El Sadat
- Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'ib. 1958NGnot in their usual nameNigerian politician
- Rogaye Kabirib. 1963IRnot in their usual nameIranian Azeri writer
- Rakia Al-Gassrab. 1982BHnot in their usual nameBahraini sprinter
- Ruqayya bint AliSAnot in their usual namedaughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Ruqayya Yasmine KhanUSnot in their usual nameIslamic studies scholar
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 101 | #8,490 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 91 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 90 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 87 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 84 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 75 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 70 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 65 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 57 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 50 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 46 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 43 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ruqaya mean, and where does it come from?
- Subida, pendiente Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Ruqaya?
- In Turkish /ɾucaja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Ruqaya a male or female name?
- Ruqaya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ruqaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Rakiya in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ruqaya?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 101 people named Ruqaya, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruqaya compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Ruqaya is the 93rd most common given name of 6,583 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruqayaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ruqaya” — the 93rd most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.