Khadija
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: the first wife of Muhammad (s) who was the first to embrace Islam. She is known as Khair al-Nisaa’, ‘the best of women’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kədijə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Khadija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 145(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 632
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 145 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Khadiza in BD Bangladesh and Хадиджа in AZ Azerbaijan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
the first wife of Muhammad (s) who was the first to embrace Islam. She is known as Khair al-Nisaa’, ‘the best of women’
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Khadija is read(measured from records)
Khadija is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic23%
the first wife of Muhammad (s) who was the first to embrace Islam. She is known as Khair al-Nisaa’, ‘the best of women’
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad, who was the first to embrace Islam
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
premature child; name of the Prophet's first wife
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- French21%
Arabic Khadīja, 'premature child' or 'early-born'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Swahili13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Khadija in Swahili.
- English10%
the first wife of the prophet Muhammad; the mother of Fatima.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Khadija in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khadija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #9 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 145 | — | Khadija | 120 |
| TZ Tanzania | #54 | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 632 | 5 | Khadija | 39 |
| NG Nigeria | #342 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Khadija | 58 |
| PK Pakistan | #267 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Khadija | 73 |
| BD Bangladesh | #85 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Khadiza | 62 |
| AF Afghanistan | #60 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Khadija | 19 |
| ES Spain | #748 | 16,812 | 1 in 3K | 17K | Khadija | 55 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #202 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Хадиджа | 25 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 1.5K | Khadija | 41 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022). 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)
Khadija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Khadija är ett arabiskt namn som innehåller ett ord med betydelsen ’barn som föddes tidigt’. Khadija var namnet på profeten Muhammeds första fru.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Khadija bint Khuwaylidb. 557SAFirst wife of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, First believer in Islam and Prophet Muhammad’s most beloved wife
- Khadijeh Saqafib. 1915IRnot in their usual nameIranian revolutionary and Ruhollah Khomeini's wife
- Khadija Mastoorb. 1927PKPakistani writer (1927-1982)
- Khadija Aribb. 1960NLDutch former politician, civil servant, educator and social worker
- Xədicə İsmayılovab. 1976AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani investigative journalist and radio host
- Khadija El-Mardib. 1991MAMoroccan boxer
- Khadija Shawb. 1997JMJamaican association football player
- Princess Lalla Khadija of Moroccob. 2007MAMoroccan Royal
- Kadija LeclereMAnot in their usual nameBelgian-Moroccan film director
- Khadija bint AliIQdaughter of Ali bin Abi Talib
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 91 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17K | #396 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 14K | #229 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1950 | 1.5K | #5 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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
- In which country does Khadija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 246 thousand people named Khadija in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khadija.
- What does the name Khadija mean, and where does it come from?
- the first wife of Muhammad (s) who was the first to embrace Islam. She is known as Khair al-Nisaa’, ‘the best of women’ Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Khadija?
- A machine transcription gives /kədijə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Khadija a male or female name?
- Khadija 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.
- What are other forms of the name Khadija?
- In the etymology graph, Hatice, Khadijah and Kadiatou are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Khadija?
- In Spain, the national register counted 16,812 people named Khadija, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Khadija compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Khadija is the 9th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Khadija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khadijaThe 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, “Khadija” — the 9th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.