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Hatice

Girls' name

Form of Khadija

Hatice has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Hatice, 2016

1 in 459,000

Hatice over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hatice: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Khadija

Arabic

What Hatice means

Hatice is a form of Khadija.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hatice is used in Turkish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ha.ti.ˈd͡ʒe/ for Hatice.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hatice → Khadija. The family’s meaning is “premature child”, recorded in the naming reference for Khadija.

Origin, language, and formation

Hatice is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Hatice comes through Ottoman Turkish خدیجه and Arabic خَدِيجَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Khadija.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Hatice is pronounced /hatid͡ʒe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Hatice between 1997 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2012; its best national rank was #11,230 in 2015.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hatice?

Hatice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 459,000
8 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 221,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
317,942 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hatice sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 317,942 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hatice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hatices were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hatice was born before 2012 — so the typical Hatice is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Hatice rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (9)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,230
2015

Spellings of Hatice

Hatice is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 41.6% against Hatice's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Hatice around the world

Where Hatice ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2025
    #3,405
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2009
    #627
    in 2009
  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #2,774
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #670
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hatice by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,230
2015
Peak year
2012
9 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hatice

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hatice

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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