Entry № 5426 · Arabic origin

Khady Khady — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAH-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Senegalese Khadija diminutive (Khady Sylla filmmaker)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Wolof)

A name that means "senegalese khadija diminutive (khady sylla filmmaker)".

Khady is from the Senegalese-Wolof rendition of Khadija — from the Arabic Khadījah (premature child, early dawn). Khady is one of the Senegalese + Malian + Gambian feminine names — central to traditional West African Muslim heritage devotion to Khadija bint Khuwaylid (c.

Khadija diminutive (Senegalese-Arabic).

The name in its native script.

Khady
Transliteration
Khady
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑː.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Khady stands.

Khady 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.

Khadys before her.

Real people
Khady Sylla
Senegalese filmmaker + Le Monologue de la Muette.
1963 – 2013
In fiction
Khady
Senegalese Khadija diminutive.

Names connected to Khady.

The number behind Khady.

4

The Builder

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