Hadija
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- hah-DEE-jah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Hadija is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “born early”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Hadija mean?
Arabic: Swahili and East African form of Khadija
“born early”
Khadija, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad, is honoured as the first person to accept Islam.
Is Hadija a girl's or a boy's name?
Hadija is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hadija in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Hadija, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2019, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Hadija in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hadija in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
Names like Hadija
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zahara, Hafsa, Abeeha, Halima, Humaira, Hiba, Safiya, Rahma, Zamira, Huda, Fatiha
Names related to Hadija
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hadija: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hadija, updated 20 October 2026.