Entry № 8965 · Arabic origin

Ruwaida Ruwaida — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ roo-WAY-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Walking gracefully"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "walking gracefully".

Ruwaida is from the Arabic Ruwaida.

Walking gracefully — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

رويدة
Transliteration
Ruwaida
Pronunciation
/ ruːˈweɪ.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ruwaida stands.

Ruwaida 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.

Ruwaidas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Classical Arabic qaṣīda walking-beauty
Arabic walking gracefully + ruwayd slow gentle + classical Arabic qaṣīda descriptions of beloved walking + pan-Arab + Levantine + Gulf naming
Arabic poetry

Names connected to Ruwaida.

The number behind Ruwaida.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ruwaida reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.