Kadija — #15846 US girls' name
598 babies named Kadija in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 1994. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 10% of names given to girls today.
34% of everyone ever named Kadija was born in this single decade.
60 babies were named Kadija in 1994 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kadija
The Social Security Administration has registered 598 babies named Kadija between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kadija currently holds the #15846 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 60 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kadija performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 204 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kadija shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Kadija in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kadija in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 598 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Kadija at a glance
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Current rank
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Kadija popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1986
- Peak year (1994)
- 60
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
Currently ranks #15846 among girls.
598 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1994 with 60 births in a single year.
Kadija by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 204 births that decade — 34% of Kadija's all-time total
Kadija decade highlights
- Peak decade 204 births
- Runner-up 166 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Kadija's strongest decade
204 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Kadija by state
Where Kadija concentrates geographically — total births since 1986
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 55 | 9.2% |
| #2 | South Carolina | | 5 | 0.8% |
55 of 598 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 9.2% of nationwide
- South Carolina 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 9.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.