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Khadija

#982 in 2025Girls' name

Premature child

Khadija has been given to 5,271 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #982 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 258 recorded.

Babies named Khadija, 2025

1 in 12,800

Khadija over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Khadija: meaning, origin, and history

Premature child

Arabic

What Khadija means

Khadija means “premature child”.

Origin, language, and formation

Khadija is used in English and Swahili. Its origins include Arabic.

Khadija comes through Arabic خَدِيجَة.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Khadija is pronounced /xəˈdiːd͡ʒə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,271 girls were recorded with the name Khadija between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 258 in 2025; its best national rank was #982 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,268 in 2020 to #982 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,344 in 2015 to #982 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 Khadija?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,800
258 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,230
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#982
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,908 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khadija 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 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,908 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khadija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khadijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khadija was born before 2011 — so the typical Khadija is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,271
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (1,555).

Is Khadija 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
+93
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+286
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+362
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.46×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (258)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#982
2025

Spellings of Khadija

Khadija is not the most common spelling — Khadijah is, with 34.7% against Khadija's 24.1%.

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 Khadija is used

Across 2016–2025, Khadija was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,000 girls, against 1 in 6,982 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

250 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 2,174
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 3,846
  4. 4Ohio1 in 4,348
  5. 5Illinois1 in 4,762
  6. 6Virginia1 in 4,762
  7. 7Michigan1 in 5,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 5,882

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.

Khadija around the world

Where Khadija 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
    #146
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2025
    #272
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #354
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1950–2025
    #137
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #391
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #291
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Khadija

People whose public names include Khadija, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Khadija in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Khadija. Linked forms have their own page here.

HaticeKadidjaKadiatouKhadijah

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Khadija by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#982
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 286
Best rank ever
#982
2025
Peak year
2025
258 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,271
Count in 2025
258

Names similar to Khadija

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

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Names with a curve like Khadija

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Khadija, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Khadija

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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