Rabia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled ระเบียบ in TH Thailand and Რაბია in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rabia is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name281K records spelled Rabia14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Türkiye

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

  Also written Rabià, Rabía, Rabiâ, Rábíá, Râbia

• English given name135K records spelled Rabia16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bangladesh, Germany, United States, Netherlands

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Rabi'A, R'Abia, Râbia, Rabía, Rabïa

• French given name35K records spelled Rabia13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Türkiye

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Rabiâ, Râbia, Rabîa, Řàbïâ, Rabïa

• Spanish given name14K records spelled Rabia17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Türkiye, United States, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Rabía, R'Abia, Rabìa, Räbïä, Řabįâ

• a separate given name3.9K records spelled Rabia6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, India, United States, Türkiye

  Also written Rabiâ, Rabià, Rabiä, Râbia, Rabía

• Hindi given name3.3K records spelled Rabia111 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Russian

  Also written Rabiya, Рабия, Рабиа, Рабія, Rabiia

• Danish given name2.7K records spelled Rabia9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Türkiye, United States

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

  Also written Rabiâ, Rabiä

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Rabia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Turkish, 1. Dördüncü. 2. Saatteki salisenin altmışta biri. 3. Tanzimat’tan sonra memurlukta bir rütbe.

  as a word·TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

• In Swedish, Rabia är ett arabiskt namn. Det kan antingen betyda ’den fjärde (dottern)’ eller vara en femininform av mansnamnet Rabi som betyder ’som hör till våren’.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• spring

  as a name·Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

• In Arabic, the fourth; name of a saint who lived in Basrah

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In English, A female given name from Arabic, meaning spring, meant to symbolize the beginning of life, hope and the advent of happiness after a dark winter. The name of the first female Sufi saint, Rabia El Basri.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 102 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rabia of Basrib. 710IQIraqi sufi and poet
• Rabia Balkhib. 1000AFPersian poet, first woman poet of Islamic period
• Rabia Bala Mal Hatunb. 1258TRwife of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Dynasty
• Rabia Şermi Kadinb. 1698TRconsort of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III (died c.1732), and mother of Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid I
• Rabia Ben Abdallahb. 1953TNTunisian actress
• Rabia Kazanb. 1976TRTurkish journalist (born 1976)
• Rabia Gülecb. 1994DEGerman taekwondo practitioner
• Rabia Soytürkb. 1999TRTurkish actor (born 1999)
• Rabia SultanTRHaseki Sultan of Ahmed II
• Rabia Mokedemactress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 701 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rabia?

We estimate roughly 193 thousand people bear Rabia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Rabia have the most bearers?

We estimate about 184 thousand people bear Rabia in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rabia.

Where is Rabia most common?

Rabia is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 446 people carrying it.

How common is Rabia compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Rabia is the 66th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Rabia a male or female name?

Rabia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Rabia mean?

Recorded meaning: variant of Arabic Rabiah; spring, fourth