Qadi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A judge who is trained in and practices Islamic law
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑːdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Qadi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 22K
- QAQatar≈1 in 51K
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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A judge who is trained in and practices Islamic law
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qadi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Qadi | 54 |
| JO Jordan | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Qadi | 27 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Qadi | 7 |
| MA Morocco | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Qadi | 30 |
| EG Egypt | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 409K | — | Qadi | 23 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Qadi | 38 |
| QA Qatar | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Qadi | 18 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | 7 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Qadi 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 poz-wmp-pro, that, there
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,265 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Qadi mean, and where does it come from?
- A judge who is trained in and practices Islamic law Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Qadi?
- In the etymology graph, Qazi is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Qadi?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑːdi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Qadi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Qadi in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qadi.
- How common is the name Qadi?
- In Norway, the national register counted 22 people named Qadi, about 1 in 249 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Qadi?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qadiThe 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, “Qadi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.