Given name & surname
Kader
“a powerful man”
Kader is a variant of Kedar. One Arabic interpretation is “a powerful man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kader is a variant of Kedar. One Arabic interpretation is “a powerful man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Kader is a variant of Kedar. An origin associated with Kedar is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Arabic قادر (qādir, “powerful”); its root is Arabic ق د ر.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kader through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 41
- 41 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 306 as a first name in 2020; 1,393 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Kader
- Kader KhanIndian-Canadian film actor, script and dialogue writer1930–2018
- Kader AbdolahIranian-Dutch columnist, poet, writerborn 1954
- Kader AttiaFrench installation artist and photographer (born 1970)
- Kader ArifFrench MEPborn 1959
- Kader KeïtaIvorian and French footballerborn 2000
- Kader BambaFrench footballerborn 1994
- Kader CamaraGuinean footballerborn 1982
- Kader AsmalSouth African politician1934–2011
- Kader HançarTurkish association football player (born 1999)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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