Given name
Khadijah
“a perfect woman”·“a child born prematurely”
Khadijah is a variant of Khadija. Interpretations include “a perfect woman” and “a child born prematurely”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Khadijah is a variant of Khadija. Interpretations include “a perfect woman” and “a child born prematurely”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Arabic خَدِيجَة; its root is Arabic خ د ج.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Khadijah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7,603
- 7 boys · 7,596 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 1,622 babies
- 2025
- 151
- #1,432 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +13%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 151 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 1,432 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 13.2% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,615 in 1994. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (31). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,883 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Khadijah’s family of names
Khadijah has a related form in Khadija. In Indonesian usage, Khadijah has a conventional equivalent in the English form Khadija.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Khadijah
- Di'JaNigerian singerborn 1989
- Khadijah of the MaldivesSultana of the Maldives1350–1380
- Khadijah HashimMalaysian writerborn 1942
- Khadijah RushdanAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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