Qadir

#5,154 in 2025Boys' name

Capable, powerful, mighty

Qadir has been given to 486 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,154 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Qadir, 2025

1 in 174,000

Qadir over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Qadir: meaning, origin, and history

Capable, powerful, mighty

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Qadir means

Qadir means “capable, powerful, mighty”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 486 boys were recorded with the name Qadir between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,997 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,178 in 2020 to #5,154 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,227 in 2015 to #5,154 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Qadir?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 174,000; 19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 89,900; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #5,154; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 120,943 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Qadir 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Qadir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Qadirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Qadir was born before 2009 — so the typical Qadir is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 73.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 486; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Qadir 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: +956; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +24; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,073; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.36×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 82.6%; Peak was 2023 (23)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,997; 1995

Spellings of Qadir

Qadir is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 29.0% against Qadir's 0.25%.

Amir29.0%55,747
Nasir9.3%17,917
Yahir6.5%12,431
Samir5.8%11,094
Jamir4.8%9,314
Jair3.8%7,258
Kadin2.6%5,074
Yair2.6%5,042

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 Qadir is used

Across 1910–2025, Qadir was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 606,433 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in —
2New Jersey1 in —
3New York1 in —
4Pennsylvania1 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. Qadir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Qadir around the world

Where Qadir 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
1997–1997
#2,859
in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Qadir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #5,154
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 24
Best rank ever: #3,997; 1995
Peak year: 2023; 23 that year
First recorded: 1982
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 486
Count in 2025: 19

Names similar to Qadir

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

Kadir Yadir Nadir Adir Khadir Quadir Qadry Jadir Qaadir Qadree Vadir Naadir Sadir Abdikadir Abdulqadir Xandir Nydir Abdulkadir Valdir Edir Jahdir Waldir Quaadir

Sibling names for Qadir

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

For a sister

Annabell Karleigh Adelle Leonor Keren Kendyl Anabel Hayleigh

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Henri

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