Kader
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kader is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. It appears chiefly in Turkish and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic qddir ‘powerful’ or qadir ‘able’, ‘capable’.
- TRTürkiye1 in 2.1K◐
- CYCyprus1 in 6.4K
- DZAlgeria1 in 38K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0K ●
- Sources
- 70 ●
- 1 in 40K ◐
across 8 countries
278K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
from a personal name based on Arabic qddir ‘powerful’ or qadir ‘able’, ‘capable’. Both Al-Qcidir ‘the All-Powerful’ and Al-QadTr ‘the Capable’ are attributes of Allah. Qddir is found in combinations such as 'Abd-ul-Qadir ‘servant of the All-Powerful’ or Nur-ul-Qadir ‘light of the All-Powerful’. 'Abdul-Qadir al-Jilanl (1077-1166) was one of the most celebrated Sufis in Islam.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #371 | 263,451 | 273K rec. | — | — | Kader | 70 |
| FR France | — | 1,690 | 0 rec. | 1 in 40K | 1.7K | — | 1 |
| SY Syria | — | 690 | 883 rec. | — | — | Kader | 6 |
| DZ Algeria | #614 | 641 | 982 rec. | — | — | Kader | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | #751 | 354 | 479 rec. | — | — | Kader | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | 348 | 364 rec. | — | 20 | Kader | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 326 | 304 rec. | — | 106 | Kader | 16 |
| IN India | — | 278 | 98 rec. | — | 455 | Kader | 26 |
| US United States | — | 249 | 252 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 1.4K | Kader | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 150 | 114 rec. | — | — | Kader | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 87 | 88 rec. | — | 85 | Kader | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 38 | 54 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 77 | — | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish266K74%
- French32K9%
- 15K4%
- Arabic15K4%
- English7K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 266,419 | 74% |
| French | 31,873 | 9% |
| 14,562 | 4% | |
| Arabic | 14,506 | 4% |
| English | 7,045 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kader is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname for someone with curly hair, from kader ‘curl’, now a rather old-fashioned term. Compare Kudrna.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
occupational name from Hebrew qador ‘potter’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
perhaps from the Germanic personal name Cado.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Turkish, destiny, fate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. Alın yazısı, yazgı. 2. Genellikle kaçınılmaz kötü talih.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 29 |
| 2000 | 30 |
| 2001 | 29 |
| 2002 | 32 |
| 2003 | 31 |
| 2004 | 30 |
| 2005 | 30 |
| 2006 | 35 |
| 2007 | 38 |
| 2008 | 38 |
| 2009 | 40 |
| 2010 | 43 |
| 2011 | 43 |
| 2012 | 45 |
| 2013 | 45 |
| 2014 | 44 |
| 2015 | 45 |
| 2016 | 47 |
| 2017 | 50 |
| 2018 | 55 |
| 2019 | 55 |
| 2020 | 53 |
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●
- Kader Khanb. 1930INIndian-Canadian film actor, script and dialogue writer
- Kader Abdolahb. 1954IRIranian-Dutch columnist, poet, writer
- Kader Arifb. 1959FRFrench MEP
- Kader Boukhanefb. 1965FRFrench actor
- Kader Attiab. 1970FRFrench installation artist and photographer (born 1970)
- Abd-el-Kader Aounb. 1971FRFrench screenwriter and film producer
- Kader Lothb. 1973DEGerman model and presenter
- Kader Bambab. 1994FRFrench footballer
- Kader Keïtab. 2000CIIvorian and French footballer
- Mohamed Kader Meïtéb. 2007FRFrench association football player
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 67 sources across 39 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 241 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kader?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Kader (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kader have the most bearers?
- Kader is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled kader.
- How common is Kader compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kader is the 371st most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Kader a male or female name?
- Kader 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.
- What does the name Kader mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic qddir ‘powerful’ or qadir ‘able’, ‘capable’.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kader” — the 371st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.