Kadir
Masculine · “capable”
Kadir is the Arabic and Turkish word for one who is capable — and al-Qadir, the All-Powerful, is one of the names of God.
How old is the name Kadir?
Kadir first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Kadir is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Kadir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kadir most popular?
Kadir peaked in 2019, reaching #3143 nationally. Today it ranks #3848, 705 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From qadir to Kadir
The story of Kadir
The root q-d-r carries the sense of being able, and from it Arabic builds both the divine name and the word for what is decreed — the connection being that power and destiny are the same thing seen from two sides. Laylat al-Qadr, the Night of Power, is the night the Qur'an is said to have begun to be revealed. The name is used across the Arab world, Turkey and South Asia.
Meaning
capable, powerful
From an Arabic root meaning to have power or capacity; al-Qadir is among the divine names, and the same root gives the word for destiny, qadar, and the name of the Night of Power in Ramadan.
How the name formed
- qadir
- Kadir
Related forms: Qadir · Kadir · Qadir · Ghadir
Pronouncing Kadir
kah-DEER
Two syllables with the stress on the second. Turkish gives the same shape.
Nicknames for Kadir
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1992
- Most boys named
- 201937 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3143reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −22.2%28 in 2025, from 36
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kadir in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Qadir in Arabic — transliteration
- Kadir in Turkish — same name
- Qadir in Urdu — same name
- Ghadir in Persian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Pennsylvania, Texas.
Kadirs among us
people named Kadir are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 61,003 born in 2025 was named Kadir
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kadir
- #3848
- Kadir on the 2025 chart
- #872
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kadir went to 28 boys in 2025, but Qadir and Khadir are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 56, which makes it the 872nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,976 places above the chart.
- Kadir28
- Qadir19
- Khadir9
About 1 boy in 30,501 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 61,003 for Kadir itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shloime test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kadir's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shloime climbed just as high around 2001, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shloime's path sketches the road Kadir is walking now.
Kadir sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kadir is headed
Kadir should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kadir beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kadir in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely interesting link between power and destiny.
- Five letters and two syllables, easy to write and to say.
- Recognized across the Arab world, Turkey and South Asia.
- Qadir and Kadir are both standard and mark different transliteration traditions.
- The stress moves to the front in some English mouths.
- It is close to Kabir and Kader in an English ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kadirs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Kadir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kadir?
- Kadir is the most-used spelling in US records — 28 of the 56 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Qadir and Khadir.
- How popular is the name Kadir in 2025?
- Kadir ranks #3848 among US boy names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kadir?
- About 1 in every 61,003 US boys born in 2025 was named Kadir — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kadir with classmates?
- Kadir will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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