Rokhaya is from the Wolof / Pulaar Rokhaya — West African rendition of Arabic رُقَيَّة daughter of Prophet Muhammad. Rokhaya is one of the Senegalese + Wolof feminine names — central to traditional West African Muslim heritage. Notable bearer: Rokhaya Diallo (born 1978) — French-Senegalese journalist + filmmaker + author anti-racism + intersectional feminist activist Georgetown University Gender+ Justice Initiative Washington Post columnist + Director of documentary Where Are You Going? (2024) about post-Charlie Hebdo French Muslim identity.
Rokhaya 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rokhaya reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.