Entry № 8425 · Arabic origin

Radia Radia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAH-dee-ah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Content / well-pleased (Quran 89:28)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "content / well-pleased (quran 89:28)".

Radia is from the Arabic Rāḍiya.

Content / well-pleased (Quran 89:28) — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

راضية

Transliteration: Rāḍiya
Pronunciation: / ˈrɑː.di.ə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Radia stands.

Radia 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.

Namesakes

Radias before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Quran 89:28 / Radia Perlman

Arabic content well-pleased + Quran 89:28 Return to your Lord well-pleased and pleasing to Him + Sufi contentment + Radia Perlman American computer scientist invented Spanning Tree Protocol

Quran + computing

Names connected to Radia.

Numerology

The number behind Radia.

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Radia reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.