Rabia
Fewer than 60 people in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met a Rabia. The name comes from Hebrew, where it means "fourth".
Rabia Pronunciation
Rabia is pronounced RAHB-yah (/ˈrabja/).
What Rabia means
Where Rabia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rabia traces its origin to Hebrew, and it settled most deeply among Arabic and Turkish speakers. In English the name is glossed as "fourth," the fourth child or the fourth-born daughter. Turkish families have carried it for generations.
The best-known bearer is Rabia al-Adawiyya, a Sufi mystic of Basra in the eighth century. She wrote of divine love and is remembered across the Muslim world. Her life gave the name a devotional weight that later bearers inherited.
In Polish the name is read as "wiosna," spring. That reading came later, drawn from how close Rabia sounds to the Arabic word for spring. On a school register in Poland, Rabia now sits near Zofia and Lena. The short meaning holds either way: fourth in English, wiosna in Polish.
How many people are named Rabia
1 in 442036 women in Poland is named Rabia. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4830 among female names.
Rabia as a middle name
Rabia is a first name for 59 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1739th, between Patience (18) and Randia (18).
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#1737 Ogechi18
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#1738 Patience18
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#1739 Rabia18
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#1740 Randia18
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#1741 Roswita18