A female given name used by Muslims ,meant to symbolize the beginning of life, hope and the advent of happiness after a dark winter.The name of the first female Sufi saint, Rabia Basri
() From Arabic ربيع (rabíaʕ, “spring”). A near homophone is Arabic رابعة (rābiʕa), the feminine of رابع (rābiʕ, “fourth”), from أربعة (’árbaʕa, “four”). Hence Rabia can also mean "the fourth female".