Hadija
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hadija is a given name, most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- TZTanzania1 in 396◐
- KEKenya1 in 3.1K
- KZKazakhstan1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.3K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 164 ●
- 1 in 4.1K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
38K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hadia in FR France, US United States, SY Syria and 15 more, Хадия in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more and Khadiya in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #15 | 33,433 | 11K rec. | — | 1 | Hadija | 33 |
| KE Kenya | #358 | 9,296 | 865 rec. | — | listed | Hadija | 25 |
| RU Russia | — | 5,645 | 1.4K rec. | — | #753 | Хадия | 79 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #607 | 4,654 | 11K rec. | 1 in 4.1K | 7K | Хадия | 24 |
| FR France | — | 3,525 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Hadia | 164 |
| SY Syria | — | 2,149 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Hadia | 11 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,095 | 507 rec. | — | listed | Hadia | 48 |
| US United States | — | 1,018 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 327K | 1K | Hadia | 121 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 880 | 203 rec. | — | — | Хадия | 10 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 609 | 620 rec. | — | — | Hadia | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | 519 | 22 rec. | — | 514 | Hadia | 7 |
| PH Philippines | — | 513 | 657 rec. | — | — | Hadija | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili37K72%
- English4.8K9%
- Portuguese1.7K3%
- Indonesian1.3K3%
- Arabic1.2K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 37,322 | 72% |
| English | 4,806 | 9% |
| Portuguese | 1,659 | 3% |
| Indonesian | 1,313 | 3% |
| Arabic | 1,179 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 20 |
| 2005 | 20 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 23 |
| 2008 | 25 |
| 2009 | 26 |
| 2010 | 28 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 27 |
| 2013 | 32 |
| 2014 | 33 |
| 2015 | 33 |
| 2016 | 33 |
| 2017 | 37 |
| 2018 | 41 |
| 2019 | 42 |
| 2020 | 42 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hadija Ndangiza MurangwaRWRwandan politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 183 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 182 | #27,078 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 130 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 107 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 97 | #22,724 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 85 | #39,144 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 53 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51 | #13,505 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 49 | #1,301 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 43 | #13,016 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 42 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 42 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hadija?
- We estimate roughly 6.3 thousand people bear Hadija (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hadija have the most bearers?
- Hadija is most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is most often spelled hadija.
- How common is Hadija compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Hadija is the 15th most common given name of 40,746 given names recorded there.
- Is Hadija a male or female name?
- Hadija is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hadija” — the 15th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.