Entry № 5425 · Arabic origin

Khadra Khadra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAHD-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Green"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "green".

Khadra is from the Somali / Arabic خَضْرَاء (Khaḍrāʾ — green, verdant, fresh). Khadra is one of the Somali + Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Sunni Muslim heritage.

Green — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

خَضْرَاء
Transliteration
Khaḍrāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑːd.rə /
Root
—
Grammatical form
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Where Khadra stands.

Khadra 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.

Khadras before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Yasmina Khadra
Algerian novelist female pseudonym of Mohammed Moulessehoul.

Names connected to Khadra.

The number behind Khadra.

7

The Seeker

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