Nameling

Khadijah

Gender
Girl
Say it
ka-DEE-ja
Origin
Arabic
UK rank, 2025
#231 for girls
US rank, 2025
#1,427 for girls

Khadijah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “premature child”. In 2025 it ranked 231st for girls in the UK (225 babies) and 1,427th for girls in the US (151 babies).

What does Khadijah mean?

Arabic: spelling of Khadija

“premature child”

Honours Khadija bint Khuwaylid, the Prophet Muhammad's first wife, revered in Islam as Mother of the Believers.

Is Khadijah a girl's or a boy's name?

Khadijah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 225 girls in the UK and 151 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Khadijah in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#231among girls
Babies in 2025
225about 1 in 1,200 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 4% in five years
Same name in a class
1.1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 225 girls in the UK were named Khadijah, making it the 231st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 255th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 273 girls.

Half of all the girls named Khadijah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 613 girls in the UK were given Khadijah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #95, up from #231 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 216th in England and Wales and 474th in Scotland.

1996Busiest: 273 in 20152025
Khadijah in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025225#231
2024250#211
2023237#221
2022224#233
2021194#270
2020203#255
2019230#232
2018253#221
2017219#255
2016232#246
2015273#214
2014254#228
2013250#224
2012254#218
2011213#264
2010184#288
2009171#301
2008159#323
2007129#369
2006147#329
2005127#348
2004105#392
2003110#373
200295#387
200187#413
200077#444
199969#481
199839#695
199746#626
199635#719

How popular is Khadijah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,427among girls
Babies in 2025
151about 1 in 11,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 26% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 151 girls in the US were named Khadijah, making it the 1,427th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,687th. Its busiest year was 1994, with 1,615 girls. It first appears in the records in 1962.

Half of all the girls named Khadijah in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 443 girls in the US were given Khadijah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #650, up from #1,427 for this spelling alone.

1962Busiest: 1,615 in 19942025
Khadijah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025151#1,427
2024178#1,296
2023160#1,402
2022135#1,573
2021121#1,710
2020121#1,687
2019131#1,614
2018137#1,577
2017131#1,643
2016138#1,598
2015109#1,872
2014109#1,853
2013107#1,880
201284#2,232
201195#2,043
201081#2,341
200973#2,547
200876#2,485
200762#2,890
200659#2,915
200577#2,312
200489#2,042
2003107#1,754
200295#1,864
200194#1,857
2000104#1,686
1999127#1,388
1998188#1,045
1997198#984
1996261#792
1995438#541
19941,615#184
1993435#544
1992159#1,114
199197#1,569
1990100#1,529
198977#1,746
198876#1,684
198769#1,732
198677#1,561
198565#1,739
198457#1,866
198359#1,797
198256#1,900
198169#1,663
198067#1,692
197976#1,530
197872#1,537
197760#1,717
197638#2,210
197533#2,411
197428#2,616
197338#2,094
197224#2,820
197120#3,266
197019#3,311
196918#3,198
19688#5,146
196710#4,299
19665#6,563
19658#4,830
196410#4,354
196310#4,271
19625#6,577

Names like Khadijah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Khadijah

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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, “Khadijah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khadijah, updated 20 October 2026.