Rabeya as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Rabeya

What is the meaning of the name Rabeya ?

The baby name Rabeya is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced rah-BAY-ah (IPA: /rɑːˈbeɪə/ or /rəˈbeɪə/).

Rabeya is Arabic in Origin.

Rabeya is a Bengali/South Asian feminine given name from the Arabic Rābiʿa (رابعة), meaning “fourth,” historically applied to a fourth-born daughter. The form entered Bengali via Persian and Urdu, yielding the common spelling রাবেয়া (Rabeya) alongside Rabia and Rabiya. Its prominence across the Islamic world owes much to the 8th‑century Sufi saint Rābiʿa al‑ʿAdawiyya of Basra, whose piety popularized the name; Ottoman usage also includes figures such as Rabia Sultan. In modern Bangladesh and West Bengal, Rabeya remains familiar in literature and public life.

Variants and transliterations include Rabia, Rabiya, Rabea, Rabeea, Raabia, and Rābiʿa; related male forms are Rabi and Rabee. Some South Asian speakers associate Rabeya with Rabīʿ (ربيع) “spring,” a different Arabic word whose sound overlaps in local spellings, so contemporary meanings may be given as either “fourth” or “spring.”