Khadeejah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-DEE-ja
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,779 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Khadeejah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “premature child”. In 2025 it ranked 1,779th for girls in the UK (17 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Khadeejah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Khadija
“premature child”
Honours Khadija bint Khuwaylid, first wife of the Prophet Muhammad and the first believer in Islam.
Is Khadeejah a girl's or a boy's name?
Khadeejah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khadeejah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,779th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 16,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 23% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the UK were named Khadeejah, making it the 1,779th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,348th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 52 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Khadeejah than any year since 2005.
Half of all the girls named Khadeejah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 613 girls in the UK were given Khadeejah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #95, up from #1,779 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,719th in England and Wales.
Khadeejah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #1,779 |
| 2024 | 20 | #1,592 |
| 2023 | 27 | #1,285 |
| 2022 | 24 | #1,406 |
| 2021 | 32 | #1,138 |
| 2020 | 25 | #1,348 |
| 2019 | 22 | #1,485 |
| 2018 | 36 | #1,050 |
| 2017 | 44 | #933 |
| 2016 | 27 | #1,324 |
| 2015 | 40 | #979 |
| 2014 | 34 | #1,100 |
| 2013 | 52 | #794 |
| 2012 | 29 | #1,232 |
| 2011 | 36 | #1,039 |
| 2010 | 21 | #1,527 |
| 2009 | 27 | #1,212 |
| 2008 | 24 | #1,293 |
| 2007 | 18 | #1,544 |
| 2006 | 21 | #1,319 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 20 | #1,238 |
| 2003 | 18 | #1,317 |
| 2002 | 21 | #1,121 |
| 2001 | 18 | #1,204 |
| 2000 | 13 | #1,502 |
| 1999 | 9 | #1,921 |
| 1998 | 9 | #1,951 |
| 1997 | 7 | #2,281 |
| 1996 | 7 | #2,201 |
How popular is Khadeejah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Khadeejah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 1994, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
Half of all the girls named Khadeejah in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 443 girls in the US were given Khadeejah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #650, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Khadeejah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,636 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,244 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,257 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
Names like Khadeejah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Safa, Zainab, Sumayyah, Ayah, Ruqayyah, Aaminah, Umaymah, Hafsa, Safiya, Umamah
Other spellings of Khadeejah
Names related to Khadeejah
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, “Khadeejah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khadeejah, updated 20 October 2026.