Kadijah
#12,500 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kadijah has been given to 1,465 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #12,500 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 486 recorded.
Babies named Kadijah, 2025
1 in 474,000
Kadijah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kadijah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,500
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kadijah 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kadijah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kadijahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kadijah was born before 1994 — so the typical Kadijah is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 76.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,465
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 76.5% of all recorded uses (1,120).
Is Kadijah 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
- −2,630
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,724
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,183
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 1.4%
- Peak was 1994 (486)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.9% average annual change
Kadijah’s breakout year
Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.
In 1994, 486 girls were named Kadijah — about #513 that year — roughly 5.1× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders
Spellings of Kadijah
Kadijah is not the most common spelling — Kaliyah is, with 20.4% against Kadijah's 2.3%.
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 Kadijah is used
Across 1910–2025, Kadijah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 137,936 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 33,333
- 2Georgia1 in 50,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 4South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 5Alabama1 in 100,000
- 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 7Florida1 in 100,000
- 8Illinois1 in 100,000
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. Kadijah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kadijah around the world
Where Kadijah 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 & Wales2000–2024#3,319in 2024
- France2013–2024#4,382in 2024
- Canada1994–1994#2,260in 1994
- South Australia1984–2003#739in 2003
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.
Kadijah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kadijah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kadijah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.