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How popular is the name Ruqayyah?
Births per year, rank history and how many Ruqayyahs are alive today.
Ruqayyah (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 483rd in 2025 with 82 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2016, when 96 babies were given the name, the 454th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 654 in 2021 before climbing back to the 483rd place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Ruqayyah is one spelling of a name also recorded as Ruqayya; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Ruqayyah you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Ruqayyahs born in England and Wales are between 6 and 19, and there are at least 2,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Ruqayyah - on average, only one in every 137 such rooms contains a Ruqayyah.
How many babies are named Ruqayyah each year?
Includes all spellings: Ruqayyah, Ruqayya. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Ruqayyah spelling rank?
Where does the Ruqayya spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Ruqayyah most popular?
Ruqayyah peaked in 2025, when 125 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Ruqayyah?
At least 2,300 people named Ruqayyah in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Ruqayyah?
Most living Ruqayyahs are between 6 and 19; the most common age is about 2.
Is Ruqayyah becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.