Meaning not yet researched.
Khadijah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 151 in 2025. Its best rank was #184 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #184 in 1994; #1,432 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Khadijah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,432 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #184.
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Khadijah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 151 girls in 2025. Peak: #184 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 1,615 (1994).
In 2025, 151 US girls were named Khadijah, making it the 1,432nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 134 places from #1,298 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 178 girls named Khadijah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #184, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,615. For comparison, it was #1,877 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Khadijah in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 7,603 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,625 babies named Khadijah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,403 US girls were named Khadijah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 178. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,644 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Khadijah ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #540 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Khadija (5,271 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Khadejah, Khadeejah and Khadeja are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Khadejah (285), Khadeejah (244), Khadeja (181), Khadajah (26), Khadeijah (7), Chadijah (6).
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.
No nicknames listed for Khadijah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 31 | #540 | #836 |
| Washington | 8 | #774 | #1,210 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #843 | #1,325 |
| Maryland | 5 | #920 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,073 | #1,116 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,218 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,275 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,336 | #2,742 |
| California | 10 | #2,026 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #2,032 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 151 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 2024 | 178 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 2023 | 160 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 2018 | 137 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 2016 | 138 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 2015 | 109 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1999 | 127 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1998 | 188 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1997 | 198 | #987 | — | — |
| 1996 | 261 | #794 | — | — |
| 1995 | 438 | #541 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,615 | #184 | 7 | #7,398 |
| 1993 | 435 | #545 | — | — |
| 1992 | 159 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,254 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,365 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,448 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,063 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,491 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,392 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,042 | — | — |
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).