Entry № 8904 · Arabic origin

Ruba Ruba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROO-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Hills"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "hills".

Ruba is from the Arabic Rubā.

Hills — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

ربى
Transliteration
Rubā
Pronunciation
/ ˈruː.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ruba stands.

Ruba 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.

Rubas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Arabic hills + Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Persian-Arabic four-line quatrains + classical Persian + Arabic poetry + Ruba Saqr Jordanian writer + pan-Arab naming
Persian + Arabic poetry

Names connected to Ruba.

The number behind Ruba.

6

The Nurturer

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