girls:
4.8k births since 1965
#2454 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1965
#3947 (49th percentile)
The name Khadija is the #3,947 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,780 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 49.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,454 (57.1% percentile) for all time with 4,780 births since 1965.
Khadija first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (first recorded for girls in 1965).
For girls, Khadija reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 22.4% percentile (ranked #744) with 122 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 122 births per million (ranked 22.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Khadija ranks #751 for girls (20.7% percentile) with 115 births per million, which is 94.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Khadija".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Khadija. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Khadija is pronounced as kuh-DEE-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-DEE-juh, at 32.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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