Hadijah

In Indonesia, Arabic-origin names entered daily life through centuries of Islamization, religious education, and the circulation of Qur’anic and scholarly texts. Within this setting, Khadija was widely adopted, but its written form often shifted in Latin script to match Indonesian spelling habits. The variant Hadijah places the "h" earlier and uses "j" in a way that feels natural for Indonesian readers, producing a spelling that is easy to pronounce and write without specialized transliteration rules.

Hadijah appears across many Indonesian communities and is especially common in families that prefer clear, locally readable spellings of classical Islamic names. The form remains fully connected to Khadija bint Khuwaylid and the honor associated with her, while also carrying a distinctly Indonesian visual identity on official documents, school records, and public life.