Given name
Qadira
“powerful; capable”·“a capable man; one who is competent”
Qadira is a feminine form of Qadir. One Arabic interpretation is “a capable man; one who is competent.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Arabic use, Qadira carries the interpretation “powerful; capable.” Qadira is a feminine form of Qadir. One Arabic interpretation is “a capable man; one who is competent.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
How it developed
Qadira is used as a feminine counterpart of Qadir.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Qadira through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 57
- 0 boys · 57 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 7 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 girls is 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Qadira’s family of names
Qadira is a feminine form of Qadir. Qadira has a related form in Qadeara. Qadira has a related form in Qadeera.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Qadeeravariant
- Quadiravariant
- Qadirahvariant
- Qadearavariant
- Qadeiravariant
- Quadyravariant
- Qadirravariant
- Qadiriavariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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