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Kadir

#3,894 in 2025Boys' name

Powerful, capable

Kadir has been given to 536 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #3,894 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Kadir, 2025

1 in 118,000

Kadir over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kadir: meaning, origin, and history

Powerful, capable

Arabic

What Kadir means

Kadir means “powerful, capable”, associated with qādir.

Origin, language, and formation

Kadir is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Kadir comes through Ottoman Turkish قادر and Arabic قَادِر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 536 boys were recorded with the name Kadir between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2019; its best national rank was #3,163 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,341 in 2020 to #3,894 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,506 in 2015 to #3,894 in 2025.

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 Kadir?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,894
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kadir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kadir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kadirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kadir was born before 2016 — so the typical Kadir is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
536
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (211).

Is Kadir 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
−594
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+447
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,612
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.7%
Peak was 2019 (37)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,163
2019

Spellings of Kadir

Kadir is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 17.3% against Kadir's 0.13%.

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 Kadir is used

Across 1910–2025, Kadir was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 718,720 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kadir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kadir around the world

Where Kadir 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1964–2025
    #2,434
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1987–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Kadir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,894
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 447
Best rank ever
#3,163
2019
Peak year
2019
37 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
536
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Kadir

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

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Sibling names for Kadir

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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