Khadijah

Where Khadijah comes from

Khadijah hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #6,578 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Khadijah Rushdan born
    American basketball player
  3. 1989
    Khadijah Blell born
    Nigerian singer
  4. 1994
    Peak, #184
    1,615 babies named Khadijah — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #541.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Khadijah Blell · Nigerian singer, born 1989
  • Khadijah Rushdan · American basketball player, born 1988

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.