Rabia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rabia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rabia: Recorded since 1970, it reached #326 in 1983, and it stood at #1,743 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
55years from first to last
#326highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#643
1997	#604
1998	#597
1999	#678
2000	#782
2001	#732
2002	#809
2003	#742
2004	#638
2005	#824
2006	#1004
2007	#1020
2008	#1019
2009	#1022
2010	#1093
2011	#1225
2012	#975
2013	#1075
2014	#1272
2015	#1601
2016	#1370
2017	#1628
2018	#2499
2019	#2040
2020	#1687
2021	#1866
2022	#1849
2023	#1575
2024	#1743

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 23 of the 45 years from 1970 to 2014.

In 2014: #573 among girls in Norway, #1272 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1970–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1970
First recorded at #460 among girls in Norway in 1970 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1970–2014
Highest recorded position: #326 among girls in Norway, in 1983 (recorded 1970–2014).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1743 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rabia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 806 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Girls, from 1970.

Rabia across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rabia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#460 (1970)	#326 (1983)	#573 (2014)	23 of 45	150 (1970–2014)	13 (1983)
England and Wales · Girls	#643 (1996)	#597 (1998)	#1743 (2024)	29 of 29	806 (1996–2024)	47 (2004)

Rabia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rabia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	157	4 of 10	39
2000sbusiest	329	10 of 10	33
2010s	237	10 of 10	24
2020s	83	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 33 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rabia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1970 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #326 in Norway in 1983.

Rabia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1743	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1575	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1866	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1628	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1370	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1601	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1075	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#975	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1225	26	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1093	30	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1022	31	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1019	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1020	29	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1004	28	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#824	34	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#638	47	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#742	37	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#809	30	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#732	34	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#782	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#678	35	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#597	43	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#604	42	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#643	37	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#573	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#610	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#592	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#564	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#634	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#385	10	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#402	9	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#595	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#486	7	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#463	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#518	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#414	10	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#533	7	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#537	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#487	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#495	8	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#620	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#326	13	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#597	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#660	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#591	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#650	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#460	7	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1970 and 2024, ranked in 44 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #326, first reached in 1983.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 47 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 33 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Quinton · #392, 28y
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Rabiya · #1755, 24y
Rachael · #25, 61y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Amar · #327, 42y
Roseanna · #325, 43y
Andrej · #324, 43y
Mahdi · #324, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Jefferson · #326, 28y
Shelly · #326, 29y
Amar · #327, 42y
Ena · #328, 29y

Rabia was ranked #326 in Norway · Girls in 1983. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rabia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rabia without appearing here.

Rabia moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2040 and #5591.
Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1849 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1575 and #2689.
Jordan Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1866 and #1866 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1849 and #2888.
Aisling Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1849 and #1621 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1575 and #2504.

Moved ahead of Rabia

Clodagh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1628 and #1681 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #1170.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1628 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #1436.
Ingrid Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1272 and #1628 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1601 and #1007.
Elaine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1575 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1743 and #1160.

Moved the opposite way to Rabia

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabia went from #643 to #1743 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabia went from #643 to #1743 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabia went from #643 to #1743 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabia went from #643 to #1743 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Rabia

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabia went from #643 to #1743 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabia went from #643 to #1743 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabia went from #643 to #1743 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rabia went from #643 to #1743 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1970 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #326 in Norway in 1983. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rabia

Rabia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rabia across 2 official records

Rabia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rabia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Rabia at a glance

Rabia across 2 official records

Rabia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rabia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Rabia

Rabia and the names beside it

Rabia moved ahead of

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