Highest ever

Khadija

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#982
258 girls
2015
#1,344
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Khadija: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 258 in 2025. Its best rank was #982 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Khadija in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#982 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
258
Since 1880
5,271
Years on record
61

Babies named Khadija, every year since 1880

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Girls

Khadija: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 258 girls in 2025. Peak: #982 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 258 (2025).

About the name Khadija

In 2025, 258 US girls were named Khadija, making it the 982nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 93 places from #1,075 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 231 girls named Khadija in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #982, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 258. For comparison, it was #1,344 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Khadija in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 5 babies. In all, 5,271 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,555 babies named Khadija.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,023 US girls were named Khadija; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 258. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,230 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Khadija ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #271 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Khadijah (7,603 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kadiatou, Khadeeja and Hatice are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Kadiatou (618), Khadeeja (288), Hatice (72).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Khadija in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Khadija by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New York62#271#799
Illinois22#479#787
Minnesota8#630#459
Ohio14#693#936
Virginia10#732#752
New Jersey9#807—
Wisconsin5#854—
Michigan8#911—
Maryland5#919#548
Missouri5#1,011—
Tennessee6#1,056—
Arizona5#1,147—
Washington5#1,152#1,209
Pennsylvania6#1,314#988
Texas16#1,501#1,386
North Carolina5#1,579#1,500
Georgia5#1,671#1,426
California13#1,703#1,875
Florida7#1,784#1,973

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025258#982——
2024231#1,075——
2023202#1,193——
2022219#1,124——
2021208#1,177——
2020177#1,268——
2019211#1,144——
2018171#1,329——
2017169#1,369——
2016177#1,342——
2015177#1,344——
2014163#1,406——
2013135#1,591——
2012134#1,618——
2011104#1,921——
2010114#1,806——
2009133#1,681——
2008117#1,839——
200792#2,170——
2006107#1,902——
200599#1,940——
200488#2,081——
2003105#1,794——
200272#2,279——
200182#2,057——
200068#2,296——
199964#2,325——
199873#2,037——
199759#2,299——
199680#1,831——
199577#1,848——
1994146#1,208——
1993125#1,337——
199263#2,145——
199166#2,066——
199073#1,915——
198948#2,430——
198841#2,617——
198777#1,615——
198644#2,316——
198530#3,043——
198430#2,956——
198327#3,099——
198235#2,667——
198118#4,244——
198029#3,030——
197927#3,108——
197824#3,236——
197732#2,637——
197627#2,830——
197522#3,210——
197424#2,948——
197318#3,543——
197210#5,266——
197118#3,571——
197013#4,361——
19698#5,696——
19688#5,364——
196711#4,165——
19666#6,165——
19655#6,993——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).