Entry № 8947 · Arabic origin

Ruqayya Ruqayya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ roo-KAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Spell / charm (Ruqayya bint Muhammad daughter of Prophet)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "spell / charm (ruqayya bint muhammad daughter of prophet)".

Ruqayya is from the Arabic رُقَيَّة (Ruqayyah — charm, incantation, ascent) — diminutive of Arabic ruqyā (spell/incantation). Ruqayya is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage. Arabic feminine name reflecting Islamic heritage.

Spell / charm (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

رُقَيَّة
Transliteration
Ruqayyah
Pronunciation
/ ruːˈqɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ruqayya stands.

Ruqayya 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.

Ruqayyas before her.

Real people
Ruqayya bint Muhammad
Second daughter of Prophet Muhammad + wife of Uthman 3rd Caliph + First Hijra to Abyssinia 615 CE.
c. 601 – 624 CE
In fiction
Ruqayya bint Ali
Daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib + Karbala 680 CE child-martyr.

Names connected to Ruqayya.

The number behind Ruqayya.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ruqayya reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.