girls:
7.3k births since 1962
#1913 (67th percentile)
boys:
7 births since 1994
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
7.3k births since 1962
#3161 (59th percentile)
The name Khadijah is the #3,161 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,271 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 59.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 59.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,913 (66.5% percentile) for all time with 7,264 births since 1962. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1994.
Khadijah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for girls and 1994 for boys).
The name Khadijah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Khadijah reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 78.6% percentile (ranked #182) with 828 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 828 births per million (ranked 78.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Khadijah ranks #794 for girls (16.2% percentile) with 90 births per million, which is 10.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Khadijah reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #774) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Khadijah".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Khadijah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.1% confident that Khadijah is pronounced as kuh-DEE-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-DEE-juh, at 38.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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