Khadijah

What Khadijah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Khadijah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1994, with 1,615 babies; 151 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Khadijah?

US: Rising: up from #1872 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #203 in 2015, #216 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1994, when 1,615 girls got the name (#184 that year). First in the US records in 1962.

How common

• About 1 in 10,644 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,157 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,982 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NY (0.4 per 1,000 girls), WA (0.28 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.25 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Khadijah is #1427 in the US and #216 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Khadijah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Khadija258 US · 340 E&W
• Khadeejah5 US · 17 E&W
• Khadeja0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Khadijah

Girls

• Margaret#112“pearl”^*
• Victoria#54“victory”^*
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Blair#169“field, plain”^*
• Stevie#203Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #978 in 2015, #203 in 2025
• Celeste#188“heavenly”^*

For a brother

• Louis#249“loud; famous + battle”^*
• Malcolm#272Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Dallas#238“dweller at the house in the dale”^*
• George#126“farmer, earth worker”^*
• Peter#187“stone, rock”^*
• Walter#251“ruler + army, host”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Khadijah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.