Entry № 8406 · Arabic origin

Rabi Rabi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAH-bee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Spring (Hausa-Arabic + Rabia al-Adawiyya 8th-c. Sufi saint)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "spring (hausa-arabic + rabia al-adawiyya 8th-c. sufi saint)".

Rabi is from the Arabic رَبِيع (rabīʿ — spring, springtime, season of growth) + Hausa rendition. Rabi is one of the Hausa-Nigerian + Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Islamic + West African heritage.

Spring (Hausa-Arabic + Rabia al-Adawiyya 8th-c. Sufi saint) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

رَبِيع
Transliteration
Rabīʿ
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑː.bi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rabi stands.

Rabi 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.

Rabis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rabia al-Adawiyya
8th-c. Iraqi Sufi first female saint + Disinterested Love of God doctrine.

Names connected to Rabi.

The number behind Rabi.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rabi reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.