Khadija
Khadija reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 980, and has been recorded 5,271 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 980th. About 5,200 Khadijas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Khadija
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,271
- Estimated living today
- 5,200
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 980th
- Rank in 2025
- 980th
- First recorded
- 1965
How old the living Khadijas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,271 babies given the name since 1965, about 5,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Khadijas
- Khadija bint Khuwaylid (557–619)First wife of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, First believer in Islam and Prophet Muhammad’s most beloved wife
- Khadija Shaw (born 1997)Jamaican association football player
- Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco (born 2007)Moroccan Royal
- Khadija Arib (born 1960)Dutch former politician, civil servant, educator and social worker
- Khadija al-Salami (born 1966)Yemeni female film producer
- Khadija Mumtaz (born 1955)Indian Malayalam language author
- Khadija Ryadi (born 1960)Moroccan human rights activist
- Khadija Gayibova (1893–1938)Azerbaijani musician
People named Khadija with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Khadija is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Khadija is most concentrated in New York (3.6×), Minnesota (2.7×), Virginia (2.2×), Maryland (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Khadija peaked:
Khadija elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Khadija +1 spelling | 10,730 | 128th |
| England and Wales girls | Khadija | 6,288 | 143rd |
| Italy girls | Khadija | 2,621 | — |
| Belgium girls | Khadija | 1,311 | 136th |
| Norway girls | Khadija | 521 | 267th |
| Scotland girls | Khadija | 119 | 272nd |
| Switzerland girls | Khadija | 117 | 506th |
| Ireland girls | Khadija | 84 | 364th |
| Poland girls | Khadija | 6 birth registrations | 594th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Khadija | 4 | 354th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Khadija: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Khadija | 65 | 0.005% | 453rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Khadija | 50 | 0.011% | 331st |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Khadija | 2 | 0.003% | 192nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Khadija is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Khadija: rank by region
In 2025, Khadija was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Khadija | 172 | 32 |
| Wallonia | Khadija | 399 | 6 |
| Brussels | Khadija | 47 | 17 |
In 2024, Khadija was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Khadija | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Khadija appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (47th), Province of Flemish Brabant (128th), Province of West Flanders (160th), Province of Antwerp (182nd) and Province of East Flanders (214th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Khadija by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 19 | 240th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Khadija among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Khadija | 155 | 184 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Khadija lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 16,812 women called Khadija were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Khadija | 220 | 5.081 | 27 |
| Almería | Khadija | 1,162 | 3.080 | 54 |
| Ceuta | Khadija | 101 | 2.438 | 101 |
| Murcia | Khadija | 1,662 | 2.098 | 87 |
| Teruel | Khadija | 134 | 2.008 | 96 |
| Tarragona | Khadija | 707 | 1.617 | 115 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Khadija against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.