Khadija

Where Khadija comes from

Borrowed from Arabic خَدِيجَة (ḵadīja).
— Wiktionary's entry for Khadija
  • Arabic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  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, 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 — more than any year before or since.
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.