Kadijah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-DEE-ja
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Kadijah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “premature child”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Kadijah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Khadijah
“premature child”
A spelling of Khadijah, the Prophet Muhammad's first wife and the first person to accept Islam.
Is Kadijah a girl's or a boy's name?
Kadijah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kadijah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2024, with 7 girls.
Half of all the girls named Kadijah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kadijah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
How popular is Kadijah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Kadijah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 1994, with 486 girls. It first appears in the records in 1969.
Half of all the girls named Kadijah in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 1997, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 443 girls in the US were given Kadijah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #650, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Kadijah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,891 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,571 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,763 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,317 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,733 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,571 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,020 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,508 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,204 |
| 1995 | 119 | #1,378 |
| 1994 | 486 | #512 |
| 1993 | 313 | #690 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,307 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,943 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,495 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,525 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,703 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,421 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,556 |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,469 |
Names like Kadijah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Sumayyah Umaymah Farah Khadija Zainab Safa Ruqayyah Aaminah Umamah Aakifah Safiya
Other spellings of Kadijah
Names related to Kadijah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Kadijah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kadijah, updated 20 October 2026.