Khadija

Where Khadija comes from

Borrowed from Arabic خَدِيجَة (ḵadīja).
— Wiktionary's entry for Khadija
  • Arabic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Khadija through the years
  1. 557
    Khadija bint Khuwaylid born
    First wife of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, First believer in Islam and Prophet Muhammad’s most beloved wife
  2. 1965
    First appearance
    #6,539 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1997
    Khadija Shaw born
    Jamaican association football player
  4. 2025
    Peak, #980
    258 babies named Khadija, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Khadija bint Khuwaylid · First wife of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, First believer in Islam and Prophet Muhammad’s most beloved wife, 557–619
  • Khadija Shaw · Jamaican association football player, born 1997
  • Khadija Arib · Dutch former politician, civil servant, educator and social worker, born 1960
  • Khadija al-Salami · Yemeni female film producer, born 1966
  • Khadija Mumtaz · Indian Malayalam language author, born 1955

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.