Khadijah
Khadijah was given to 151 girls in 2025, #1,432 among girls’ names; 7,603 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,460 Americans named Khadijah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 15 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khadijah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khadijah?
#1,432 among girls’ names, 2025
Khadijah rose from #1,877 in 2015 to #1,432 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 61.1 to 93.9 per million.
1,622 babies in 1994, the peak
Khadijah peaked in 1994, when 1,622 babies were given it (1,615 girls, #184 among girls’ names). The 151 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 151 | #1,432 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 178 | #1,298 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 160 | #1,405 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,581 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,715 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,692 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,622 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 137 | #1,581 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,648 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 138 | #1,599 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 109 | #1,877 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,860 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,884 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,249 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,050 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,352 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,555 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,496 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,907 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,927 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,324 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,052 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,765 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,879 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,864 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,694 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 127 | #1,393 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 188 | #1,046 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 198 | #986 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 261 | #794 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 438 | #541 | 0.25 |
| 1994 | 1,615 | #184 | 0.90 |
| 1993 | 435 | #545 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 159 | #1,117 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,573 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,533 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,754 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,693 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,741 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,564 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,747 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,873 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,804 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,909 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,670 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,695 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,535 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,540 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,727 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,227 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,431 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,645 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,106 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,855 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,310 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,364 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,253 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,447 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,048 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,490 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,391 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,041 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Khadijah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Khadijah has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 64 years of records.
Girls and boys named Khadijah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khadijah, and how old are they?
7,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,603 Americans ever recorded as Khadijah. The median Khadijah alive today is 31 years old; half are between 15 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 5,883 people named Khadijah (5,858 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,663 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 494 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,640 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,720 |
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 Khadijah born?
The states with the most babies named Khadijah are New York, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 31 | #540 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,336 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #843 | 1.4× |
| California | 10 | #2,026 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,073 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 8 | #774 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,217 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,032 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,275 | 2.2× |
| Maryland | 5 | #920 | 1.1× |
Where Khadijah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khadijah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1962 it was given 2.2 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 Khadijah 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 16,062 babies since 1880, Khadijah is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 151 of their 429 babies (35%), the second 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 Khadijah
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 Khadijah and names like it
- Compare Khadijah and KhadijaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKhadijah peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khadijah since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Khadijah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Khadijah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.