Bride kidnapping

Bride kidnapping - practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry. Article “Bride kidnapping” in English Wikipedia has 81.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 201 references and 49 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.4 points.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Bride kidnapping” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Bride kidnapping”, its content was written by 375 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 821 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 497 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1813 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12002 in March 2020
• Global: #17645 in May 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17916 in April 2017
• Global: #32880 in April 2017

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Portuguese (pt) Rapto de noivas		88.2059
2	English (en) Bride kidnapping		81.5734
3	Italian (it) Rapimento della sposa		76.2565
4	Arabic (ar) اختطاف العروس		72.2965
5	Spanish (es) Rapto de la novia		67.1244
6	Armenian (hy) Աղջիկ փախցնել		59.473
7	Hebrew (he) חטיפת נשים		54.0407
8	Persian (fa) عروس‌ربایی		44.3747
9	Japanese (ja) 誘拐婚		39.633
10	Russian (ru) Похищение невесты		34.7857

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bride kidnapping" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bride kidnapping		3 035 718
2	Russian (ru) Похищение невесты		601 369
3	Arabic (ar) اختطاف العروس		267 980
4	Japanese (ja) 誘拐婚		258 053
5	German (de) Brautraub		243 035
6	Spanish (es) Rapto de la novia		202 244
7	Kazakh (kk) Қыз алып қашу		124 379
8	French (fr) Mariage par enlèvement		68 904
9	Chinese (zh) 抢婚		54 473
10	Swedish (sv) Enlevering		53 785

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bride kidnapping" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bride kidnapping		9 302
2	Russian (ru) Похищение невесты		1 603
3	Japanese (ja) 誘拐婚		1 082
4	German (de) Brautraub		803
5	Persian (fa) عروس‌ربایی		476
6	Spanish (es) Rapto de la novia		393
7	French (fr) Mariage par enlèvement		333
8	Swedish (sv) Enlevering		321
9	Chinese (zh) 抢婚		319
10	Hebrew (he) חטיפת נשים		171

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Bride kidnapping" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bride kidnapping		375
2	German (de) Brautraub		112
3	Russian (ru) Похищение невесты		81
4	Spanish (es) Rapto de la novia		34
5	French (fr) Mariage par enlèvement		32
6	Hebrew (he) חטיפת נשים		26
7	Swedish (sv) Enlevering		24
8	Japanese (ja) 誘拐婚		18
9	Persian (fa) عروس‌ربایی		11
10	Italian (it) Rapimento della sposa		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Bride kidnapping" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Brautraub		4
2	English (en) Bride kidnapping		3
3	Hebrew (he) חטיפת נשים		2
4	Basque (eu) Emaztegaiaren bahiketa		1
5	Russian (ru) Похищение невесты		1
6	Arabic (ar) اختطاف العروس		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Forkapto de la fianĉino		0
8	Spanish (es) Rapto de la novia		0
9	Estonian (et) Pruudiröövimine		0
10	Persian (fa) عروس‌ربایی		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Bride kidnapping" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Bride kidnapping		497
2	Ukrainian (uk) Викрадення нареченої		256
3	Hebrew (he) חטיפת נשים		208
4	Russian (ru) Похищение невесты		131
5	French (fr) Mariage par enlèvement		130
6	Persian (fa) عروس‌ربایی		97
7	Turkish (tr) Kız kaçırmak		75
8	Arabic (ar) اختطاف العروس		63
9	German (de) Brautraub		51
10	Urdu (ur) عروسی اغوا		47

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اختطاف العروس
de	German Brautraub
en	English Bride kidnapping
eo	Esperanto Forkapto de la fianĉino
es	Spanish Rapto de la novia
et	Estonian Pruudiröövimine
eu	Basque Emaztegaiaren bahiketa
fa	Persian عروس‌ربایی
fr	French Mariage par enlèvement
he	Hebrew חטיפת נשים
hy	Armenian Աղջիկ փախցնել
id	Indonesian Penculikan mempelai
it	Italian Rapimento della sposa
ja	Japanese 誘拐婚
kk	Kazakh Қыз алып қашу
ko	Korean 신부 납치
no	Norwegian Bruderov
pt	Portuguese Rapto de noivas
ru	Russian Похищение невесты
simple	Simple English Bride kidnapping
sr	Serbian Kidnapovanje mlade
sv	Swedish Enlevering
ta	Tamil மணமகள் கடத்தல்
tr	Turkish Kız kaçırmak
uk	Ukrainian Викрадення нареченої
ur	Urdu عروسی اغوا
uz	Uzbek Kelin o`g`irlash
vi	Vietnamese Bắt cóc cô dâu
zh	Chinese 抢婚

Best Rank

English: #17916 04.2017

Global: #32880 04.2017

Best Rank

English: #12002 03.2020

Global: #17645 05.2024

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