Entry № 8461 · Hausa origin

Rakiya Rakiya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hausa
Meaning
"One who rises"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "one who rises".

Rakiya is a name of Hausa origin, meaning one who rises.

One who rises — a Hausa name.

The name in its native script.

Rakiya
Transliteration
Rakiya
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Rakiya stands.

Rakiya 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.

Rakiyas before her.

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In fiction

Names connected to Rakiya.

The number behind Rakiya.

2

The Peacemaker

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