Entry № 1485 · Arabic origin

Bilqis Bilqis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BIL-kees /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Queen of Sheba"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Islamic tradition)

A name that means "queen of sheba".

Bilqis (بلقيس) is the traditional Arabic name for the Queen of Sheba — the ancient queen who, in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, travelled north to visit King Solomon. The Quran mentions her by an unspecified "Queen of Sheba" but Islamic tradition has given her the name Bilqis for over a thousand years.

Bilqis is used as a girl's name across the Islamic world, particularly in Arabia, the Levant, North Africa, and parts of South Asia.

Queen of Sheba — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

بلقيس
Transliteration
Bilqīs
Pronunciation
/ bɪlˈqiːs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bilqis stands.

Bilqis 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.

Bilqiss before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bilquis
Goddess and central character in Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.
2001 novel

Names connected to Bilqis.

The number behind Bilqis.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bilqis reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.