Entry № 8407 · Arabic origin

Rabia Rabia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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

A name that means "spring (the sufi mystic)".

Rabia (رابعة) is the Arabic word for "fourth" — also commonly understood as "spring." Rabia al-Adawiyya (c. 717-801 CE) was the first female Sufi mystic, who taught the doctrine of pure divine love — loving God for God alone, not from fear of hell or hope of paradise.

Rabia is widely used in the Muslim world.

The first female Sufi mystic. Pure divine love.

The name in its native script.

رابعة
Transliteration
Rābiʿah
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑː.bi.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rabia stands.

Rabia 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.

Rabias before her.

Real people
Rabia al-Adawiyya
First female Sufi mystic.
c. 717 – 801
In fiction
Rabia
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Rabia.

The number behind Rabia.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rabia reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.