Kadija
#11,374 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kadija has been given to 606 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #11,374 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 60 recorded.
Babies named Kadija, 2025
1 in 414,000
Kadija over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kadija?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,374
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kadija sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kadija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kadijas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kadija was born before 2005 — so the typical Kadija is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 606
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (204).
Is Kadija 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
- +5,010
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,321
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,944
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 13.3%
- Peak was 1994 (60)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kadija
Kadija is not the most common spelling — Karina is, with 21.5% against Kadija's 0.21%.
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.
Where Kadija is used
Across 1910–2025, Kadija was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 247,706 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
- 2South Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kadija has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kadija around the world
Where Kadija 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 & Wales1996–2025#4,201in 2025
- France1955–2025#1,192in 2025
- Canada1995–2023#3,391in 2023
- South Australia1966–1966#658in 1966
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kadija by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kadija
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kadija
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.