Kadidja
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Journal Officiel, 2023
Kadidja is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Niger than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 110K
- SESweden1 in 567K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Niger (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 184 (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Djibouti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kadidja 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NE Niger | #83 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 758 | 1 | Kadidja | 7 |
| TD Chad | #83 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Kadidja | 3 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Kadidja | 6 |
| ML Mali | #487 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 1 | Kadidja | 3 |
| DJ Djibouti | #12 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 184 | 1 | Kadidja | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 84 | 1 in 2.5M | 95 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Journal Officiel — Decret 2023-028, listes des candidats (legislatives 2023); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Khadija bint Khuwaylidb. 557SAnot in their usual nameFirst 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. 1927PKnot in their usual namePakistani writer (1927-1982)
- Khadija Aribb. 1960NLnot in their usual nameDutch former politician, civil servant, educator and social worker
- Xədicə İsmayılovab. 1976AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani investigative journalist and radio host
- Khadija El-Mardib. 1991MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan boxer
- Khadija Shawb. 1997JMnot in their usual nameJamaican association football player
- Princess Lalla Khadija of Moroccob. 2007MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan Royal
- Kadija LeclereMAnot in their usual nameBelgian-Moroccan film director
- Khadija bint AliIQnot in their usual namedaughter 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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 95 | #23,061 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 84 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 84 | #46,608 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 64 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 47 | #49,319 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 38 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 26 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 20 | — |
| DJ Djibouti | Journal Officiel — Decret 2023-028, listes des candidats (legislatives 2023) | 2023 | 1 | #9 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #255 |
| NE Niger | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #135 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Kadidja a male or female name?
- Kadidja is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024).
- In which country does Kadidja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Kadidja in the Niger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kadidja.
- How common is the name Kadidja?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 84 people named Kadidja in 2022, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
- How common is Kadidja compared with other names?
- In the Niger, Kadidja is the 83rd most common given name of 220 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kadidja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kadidjaThe 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, “Kadidja” — the 83rd most common given name in Niger. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.