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Khadijah

About 7,603 American babies have been named Khadijah since 1962, most of them around 1994. In 2025 it ranked 1,427th. About 7,500 Khadijahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Khadijah boys named Khadijah

By the numbers

Total US births
7,603
Estimated living today
7,500
Median age today
30
Peak year
1994
Best rank
184th
Rank in 2025
1,427th
First recorded
1962
Girls / boys
7,596 / 7

How old the living Khadijahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 7,603 babies given the name since 1962, about 7,500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Khadijahs

People named Khadijah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Khadijah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Khadijah is most concentrated in New Jersey (3.1×), New York (2.5×), South Carolina (2.2×), Georgia (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1994

The most popular girls’ names the year Khadijah peaked:

All the names of 1994

Khadijah elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Khadijah 4,974 203rd
France girls Khadijah 140 2,153rd
Scotland girls Khadijah 109 285th
Ireland girls Khadijah 14 555th
Belgium girls Khadijah 5 1,371st
Poland girls Khadijah 4 birth registrations 724th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Khadijah among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Khadijah 22 23

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Khadijah against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.