Kader
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic qddir ‘powerful’ or qadir ‘able’, ‘capable’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kader/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kader is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 944
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 944 (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a personal name based on Arabic qddir ‘powerful’ or qadir ‘able’, ‘capable’. Both Al-Qcidir ‘the All-Powerful’ and Al-QadTr ‘the Capable’ are attributes of Allah. Qddir is found in combinations such as 'Abd-ul-Qadir ‘servant of the All-Powerful’ or Nur-ul-Qadir ‘light of the All-Powerful’. 'Abdul-Qadir al-Jilanl (1077-1166) was one of the most celebrated Sufis in Islam.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kader counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #373 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Kader | 75 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 944 | — | Kader | 11 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 1 | — | 3 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 306 | 1 in 1.1M | 1.4K | Kader | 61 |
| CY Cyprus | #565 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Kader | 8 |
| YT Mayotte | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 5 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kader is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname for someone with curly hair, from kader ‘curl’, now a rather old-fashioned term. Compare Kudrna.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
occupational name from Hebrew qador ‘potter’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
perhaps from the Germanic personal name Cado.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Turkish, destiny, fate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. Alın yazısı, yazgı. 2. Genellikle kaçınılmaz kötü talih.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kader Khanb. 1930INIndian-Canadian film actor, script and dialogue writer
- Kader Abdolahb. 1954IRIranian-Dutch columnist, poet, writer
- Kader Arifb. 1959FRFrench MEP
- Kader Boukhanefb. 1965FRFrench actor
- Kader Attiab. 1970FRFrench installation artist and photographer (born 1970)
- Abd-el-Kader Aounb. 1971FRFrench screenwriter and film producer
- Kader Lothb. 1973DEGerman model and presenter
- Kader Bambab. 1994FRFrench footballer
- Kader Keïtab. 2000CIIvorian and French footballer
- Mohamed Kader Meïtéb. 2007FRFrench association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.7K | #1,605 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 249 | #29,086 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57 | #29,086 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 7 | — |
| YT Mayotte | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte) | 2022 | 5 | #223 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 3 | #13 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #70 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kader come from?
- from a personal name based on Arabic qddir ‘powerful’ or qadir ‘able’, ‘capable’. Both Al-Qcidir ‘the All-Powerful’ and Al-QadTr ‘the Capable’ are attributes of Allah. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Kader a male or female name?
- Kader 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.
- How do you pronounce Kader?
- A machine transcription gives /kader/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Kader mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on Arabic qddir ‘powerful’ or qadir ‘able’, ‘capable’.
- In which country does Kader have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named Kader in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kader.
- How common is the name Kader?
- In the United States, the national register counted 306 people named Kader in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Kader compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kader is the 373rd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaderThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kader” — the 373rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.