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Khadijah
Say it: kah-DEE-jah
Meaning
Arabic, usually explained as 'early-born (premature) child'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Adopted by African American families from the 1960s with other Arabic names.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1990s
In the United States
- 6,854 babies given this name since 1962
- At its height in 1994, about 1 in 1,100 girls
- 121 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Khadija, Kadijah
| Arabic | Khadīja |
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Famous bearers
- Khadija, first wife of the Prophet Muhammad
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.