Khadijah
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khadijah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Name given to Sandra's daughter; Khadijah 14X is the Nation of Islam form.
- BDBangladesh1 in 194◐
- MAMorocco1 in 207
- TNTunisia1 in 999
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈41K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 289 ●
- 1 in 3.0K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
348K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Khadija in IN India, MA Morocco, NG Nigeria and 17 more, Хадиджа in KZ Kazakhstan, TJ Tajikistan, AZ Azerbaijan, Хадижа in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and Khadiza in BD Bangladesh.
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●
Name given to Sandra's daughter; Khadijah 14X is the Nation of Islam form.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 7 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #11 | 1,461,846 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Khadiza | 59 |
| IN India | — | 104,153 | 73K rec. | — | 27 | Khadija | 64 |
| MA Morocco | #8 | 74,180 | 82K rec. | — | — | Khadija | 109 |
| RU Russia | #621 | 36,198 | 19K rec. | — | #248 | Хадижа | 105 |
| NG Nigeria | #323 | 22,526 | 23K rec. | — | — | Khadija | 58 |
| SY Syria | #172 | 20,104 | 21K rec. | — | — | Khadija | 18 |
| PK Pakistan | #294 | 17,972 | 1.7K rec. | — | listed | Khadija | 70 |
| ES Spain | — | 16,812△ | 7.5K rec. | 1 in 3K | 17K | Khadija | 53 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #303 | 11,668 | 92 rec. | — | 2.2K | Хадижа | 15 |
| YE Yemen | #53 | 11,399 | 165 rec. | — | — | Khadija | 18 |
| FR France | — | 10,285△ | 181 rec. | 1 in 6.6K | 10K | Khadijah | 51 |
| TZ Tanzania | #75 | 9,702 | 5.6K rec. | — | 5 | Khadija | 38 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English39K48%
- Malay12K15%
- Indonesian7.4K9%
- Arabic5.7K7%
- Swahili5K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 39,232 | 48% |
| Malay | 12,150 | 15% |
| Indonesian | 7,388 | 9% |
| Arabic | 5,673 | 7% |
| Swahili | 4,985 | 6% |
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●
Khadijah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, early-born; name of the Prophet Muhammad’s first wife
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Imperfect
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 10 |
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1965 | 8 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 18 |
| 1970 | 19 |
| 1971 | 20 |
| 1972 | 24 |
| 1973 | 38 |
| 1974 | 28 |
| 1975 | 33 |
| 1976 | 38 |
| 1977 | 60 |
| 1978 | 72 |
| 1979 | 76 |
| 1980 | 67 |
| 1981 | 69 |
| 1982 | 56 |
| 1983 | 59 |
| 1984 | 57 |
| 1985 | 65 |
| 1986 | 77 |
| 1987 | 69 |
| 1988 | 76 |
| 1989 | 77 |
| 1990 | 100 |
| 1991 | 97 |
| 1992 | 159 |
| 1993 | 435 |
| 1994 | 1,615 |
| 1995 | 438 |
| 1996 | 261 |
| 1997 | 198 |
| 1998 | 188 |
| 1999 | 127 |
| 2000 | 104 |
| 2001 | 94 |
| 2002 | 95 |
| 2003 | 107 |
| 2004 | 89 |
| 2005 | 77 |
| 2006 | 59 |
| 2007 | 62 |
| 2008 | 76 |
| 2009 | 73 |
| 2010 | 81 |
| 2011 | 95 |
| 2012 | 84 |
| 2013 | 107 |
| 2014 | 109 |
| 2015 | 109 |
| 2016 | 138 |
| 2017 | 131 |
| 2018 | 137 |
| 2019 | 131 |
| 2020 | 121 |
| 2021 | 121 |
| 2022 | 135 |
| 2023 | 160 |
| 2024 | 178 |
| 2025 | 151 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 64 years between 1962–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Khadija bint Khuwaylidb. 557SAnot in their usual nameFirst wife of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, First believer in Islam and Prophet Muhammad’s most beloved wife
- Khadijeh Saqafib. 1915IRnot in their usual nameIranian revolutionary and Ruhollah Khomeini's wife
- Khadija Mastoorb. 1927PKnot in their usual namePakistani writer (1927-1982)
- Khadija Aribb. 1960NLnot in their usual nameDutch former politician, civil servant, educator and social worker
- Xədicə İsmayılovab. 1976AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani investigative journalist and radio host
- Khadija El-Mardib. 1991MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan boxer
- Khadija Shawb. 1997JMnot in their usual nameJamaican association football player
- Princess Lalla Khadija of Moroccob. 2007MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan Royal
- Kadija LeclereMAnot in their usual nameBelgian-Moroccan film director
- Khadija bint AliIQnot in their usual namedaughter of Ali bin Abi Talib
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 47 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 194 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Khadijah?
- We estimate roughly 41 thousand people bear Khadijah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Khadijah have the most bearers?
- Khadijah is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled khadiza.
- How common is Khadijah compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Khadijah is the 11th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Khadijah a male or female name?
- Khadijah 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 Khadijah mean?
- Recorded meaning: Name given to Sandra's daughter; Khadijah 14X is the Nation of Islam form.
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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, “Khadijah” — the 11th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.