Entry № 8405 · Arabic origin

Rabea Rabea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAH-bee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Spring season (Rabea al-Adawiyya Sufi mystic)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "spring season (rabea al-adawiyya sufi mystic)".

Rabea is from the Arabic ربيعة (Rābiʿah — spring, fourth, garden in spring). Rabea is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage. Arabic feminine name reflecting Islamic Sufi heritage.

Spring season (Arabic). 10th c.

The name in its native script.

ربيعة
Transliteration
Rābiʿah
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑː.biː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rabea stands.

Rabea 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.

Rabeas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rabia al-Adawiyya / Rabia of Basra
Muslim Sufi saint + mystic poet + Iraqi Sufi pioneer + pioneering Divine Love mysticism + Attar's Tadhkirat al-Awliya hagiography.
c. 717 – 801 CE

Names connected to Rabea.

The number behind Rabea.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rabea reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.