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Rokiah name meaning

“rise or ascent; also a charm or spell”

Letters
6
Syllables
3
First letter
R
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1950s: 10.1%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s9.5%
1950s10.1%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
4

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Rokiah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: RArabic origin

Rokiah is a girl's name from Arabic, the Malay spelling of Ruqayyah, which may mean 'rise' or 'charm'.

What does Rokiah mean?

Rise or ascent; also a charm or spell

In Malay: naik atau meningkat; juga jampi

Sources (2)

About the name Rokiah

Rokiah is the Malay spelling of the Arabic name Ruqayyah (رقية). It may come from ruqīy, 'rise, ascent', or from ruqya, 'charm' or 'spell', both from the root raqiya, 'to rise'. Rogayah is another Malay form of the same name, and Rukiah and Rukiyah are also common spellings. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 6,001 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesRo-ki-ah
First letterMalay Names starting with R
Arabic scriptرقية

Rokiah in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 2,452 · 9.5%
1950s
Girl: 6,001 · 10.1%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Rokiah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Rokiah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: رقية · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Ruqayya · behindthename.com · meaning

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