Khadija
Khadija was given to 258 girls in 2025, #982 among girls’ names; 5,271 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,200 Americans named Khadija and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khadija by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Khadija mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Khadija is “a female given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic خَدِيجَة (ḵadīja).
/xəˈdiːd͡ʒə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Khadija?
#982 among girls’ names, 2025
Khadija rose from #1,344 in 2015 to #982 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.16 per 1,000.
258 babies in 2025, the peak
Khadija peaked in 2025, when 258 girls were given it, #982 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 231 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 258 | #982 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 231 | #1,075 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 202 | #1,193 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 219 | #1,124 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 208 | #1,177 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 211 | #1,144 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 171 | #1,329 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 169 | #1,369 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 177 | #1,342 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 177 | #1,344 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 163 | #1,406 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 135 | #1,591 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,618 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,921 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,806 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,681 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 117 | #1,839 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 92 | #2,170 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 107 | #1,902 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,939 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,079 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,793 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,276 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,053 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,292 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,322 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 73 | #2,034 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,296 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 80 | #1,829 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,843 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 146 | #1,205 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 125 | #1,335 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,140 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 66 | #2,060 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,911 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,425 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,612 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 77 | #1,614 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,315 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,042 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,955 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,098 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,667 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,243 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,030 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,108 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,236 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,637 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,829 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,210 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,948 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,542 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,265 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,570 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,360 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,694 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,164 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,164 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,992 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Khadija a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khadija has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Khadija: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khadija, and how old are they?
5,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,271 Americans ever recorded as Khadija. The median Khadija alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 7,084 people named Khadija (7,052 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,970 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 265 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 956 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,480 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Khadija born?
The states with the most babies named Khadija are New York, Illinois and Texas, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 62 | #271 | 2.8× |
| Illinois | 22 | #479 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,501 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 14 | #693 | 0.9× |
| California | 13 | #1,703 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 10 | #732 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #807 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 8 | #630 | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 8 | #911 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,784 | 0.4× |
Where Khadija is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khadija is most over-represented in New York: since 1965 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Khadija with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,967 babies since 1880, Khadija is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 258 of their 438 babies (59%), the 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 Khadija
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 Khadija and names like it
- Compare Khadija and KhadijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKhadija peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khadija since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Khadija: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Khadija.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khadija alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.