Entry № 8921 · Arabic origin

Rufaida Rufaida — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ roo-FIE-dah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"First Muslim nurse"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "first muslim nurse".

Rufaida is from the Arabic Rufayda. Arabic Rufayda Rufaida Al-Aslamia 620-?

First Muslim nurse — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

رفيدة

Transliteration: Rufayda
Pronunciation: / ruːˈfaɪ.də /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Rufaida stands.

Rufaida 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

Rufaidas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Rufaida Al-Aslamia

First female Muslim nurse + first social worker in Islam + established first hospital tent at Battle of Trench 627 CE + treated Companions of Prophet Muhammad + WHO Rufaida Award

Islamic medical history

Names connected to Rufaida.

Numerology

The number behind Rufaida.

The Nurturer

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