Entry № 3953 · Hausa origin

Hadiza Hadiza — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ha-DEE-zah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hausa
Meaning
"Trustworthy; the Prophet's first wife"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Hausa)

A name that means "trustworthy; the prophet's first wife".

Hadiza is the Hausa (West African) form of Khadija — the name of the Prophet Muhammad's first wife.

Hadiza Bala Usman (born 1976), the Nigerian activist and former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, is a contemporary bearer.

Trustworthy. The Hausa Khadija.

The name in its native script.

Hadiza
Transliteration
Hadiza
Pronunciation
/ həˈdiː.zə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hadiza stands.

Hadiza does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hadizas before her.

Real people
Hadiza Bala Usman
Nigerian activist.
born 1976
In fiction
Hadiza
Common in West African fiction.

Names connected to Hadiza.

The number behind Hadiza.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hadiza reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.