Kadija
Kadija was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,374 among girls’ names; 606 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kadija by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kadija?
#11,374 among girls’ names, 2025
Kadija fell from #7,430 in 2015 to #11,374 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 5.0 per million.
60 babies in 1994, the peak
Kadija peaked in 1994, when 60 girls were given it, #2,216 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,374 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,384 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,664 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,329 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,658 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,053 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,821 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,447 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,238 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,705 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,430 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,468 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,955 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,041 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,707 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,763 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,866 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,909 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,292 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,454 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,979 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,599 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,033 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,860 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,117 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,968 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,952 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,755 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,284 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,949 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,750 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,216 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,372 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,064 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,181 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,025 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,689 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,969 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,722 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kadija a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kadija has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kadija: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kadija, and how old are they?
An estimated 598 Americans named Kadija and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 751 people named Kadija (746 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 547 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Kadija?
Kadija is a less common spelling of Khadijah: SSA has recorded 606 Kadija and 7,603 Khadijah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,877 babies since 1880, Kadija is the fourth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 424 babies (1.9%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kadija
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kadija and names like it
- Compare Kadija and KhadijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKadija peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kadija since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Kadija.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kadija alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.