Entry № 8408 · Arabic origin

Rabiya Rabiya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAH-bee-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Fourth / spring (Rabia al-Adawiyya Sufi mystic)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "fourth / spring (rabia al-adawiyya sufi mystic)".

Rabiya is from the Arabic رابعة (Rābiʿah — fourth, fourth daughter, springtime). Rabiya is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim + Sufi heritage. Arabic feminine name reflecting Sufi mystical heritage.

Fourth / spring (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

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

Where Rabiya stands.

Rabiya 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.

Rabiyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rabia al-Adawiyya
Iraqi Muslim saint + Sufi mystic + poet + first woman qutb in Sufi tradition + doctrine of Divine Love + Attar of Nishapur's Tadhkirat al-Awliya ~1220 CE.
c. 717 – 801 CE

Names connected to Rabiya.

The number behind Rabiya.

2

The Peacemaker

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