Rukia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Swahili: Applicative form of -ruka: to jump at, to jump on
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɾukia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rukia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common given name.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 858(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 5.2K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 79K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 858 (inferred from the name graph)
≈68,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Applicative form of -ruka: to jump at, to jump on
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Rukia is read(measured from records)
Rukia is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swahili66%
Applicative form of -ruka: to jump at, to jump on
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.3%
Any bird of the genus Rukia, native to Micronesia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rukia in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rukia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #53 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 858 | 1 | Rukia | 34 |
| KE Kenya | #388 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Rukia | 31 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Rukia | 5 |
| US United States | — | 467 | 1 in 712K | 465 | Rukia | 91 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Rukia | 11 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Rukia | 8 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Rukia | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 54 | 1 in 189K | 54 | Rukia | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rukia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, superior
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 465 | #21,666 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 54 | #12,990 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 46 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #21,666 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rukia mean, and where does it come from?
- Applicative form of -ruka: to jump at, to jump on Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rukia?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾukia/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- Is Rukia a male or female name?
- Rukia 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.
- In which country does Rukia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 68 thousand people named Rukia in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rukia.
- How common is the name Rukia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 467 people named Rukia in 2020, about 1 in 712 thousand residents.
- How common is Rukia compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Rukia is the 53rd most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rukia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rukiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rukia” — the 53rd most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.