Entry № 1483 · Arabic origin

Bilkisu Bilkisu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bil-KEE-soo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Queen of Sheba"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "queen of sheba".

Bilkisu is from the Hausa rendition of Arabic بِلْقِيس. Bilkisu is one of the Hausa-Nigerian feminine names.

Queen of Sheba (Hausa-Arabic).

The name in its native script.

بِلْقِيس
Transliteration
Bilqīs
Pronunciation
/ bɪlˈkiː.suː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bilkisu stands.

Bilkisu 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.

Bilkisus before her.

Real people
Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf
Nigerian journalist + first Northern Nigerian Muslim woman editor New Nigerian.
1952 – 2015
In fiction
Bilkisu (Queen Bilqis of Sheba)
Queen of Sheba Quran 27 + Kebra Nagast.

Names connected to Bilkisu.

The number behind Bilkisu.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bilkisu reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.