Entry № 5423 · Arabic origin

Khadijah Khadijah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-DEE-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Trustworthy; first wife of the Prophet"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

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

Khadijah (خديجة) was the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad and the first convert to Islam. A wealthy businesswoman of Mecca, she supported the Prophet through his earliest revelations and is revered as the "Mother of Believers."

Khadijah is widely used in the Muslim world. Khadijah Williams is the contemporary American activist.

First convert to Islam. The Prophet's first wife.

The name in its native script.

خديجة
Transliteration
Khadījah
Pronunciation
/ kəˈdiː.dʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Khadijah stands.

Khadijah 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.

Khadijahs before her.

Real people
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
First wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
c. 555 – 619 CE
In fiction
Khadijah
Common in Muslim families.

Names connected to Khadijah.

The number behind Khadijah.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Khadijah reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.