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Majeed

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Majid

Majeed has been given to 83 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2024, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Majeed, 2024

1 in 334,000

Majeed over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Majeed: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Majid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Majeed means

Majeed is a alternate transcription of Majid.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Majeed is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ma.ˈd͡ʒiːd/ for Majeed.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Majeed → Majid. The family’s meaning is “glorious, magnificent”, recorded in the naming reference for Majid.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Majid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 83 boys were recorded with the name Majeed between 1994 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,185 in 2000.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Majeed?

Majeed had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Majeed sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Majeed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Majeeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Majeed was born before 2015 — so the typical Majeed is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
83
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Majeed rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2024 (10)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,185
2000

Spellings of Majeed

Majeed is not the most common spelling — Najee is, with 21.8% against Majeed's 0.66%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Majeed around the world

Where Majeed ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #651
    in 1976

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Majeed by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,185
2000
Peak year
2024
10 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
83
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Majeed

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MajourHameedMajikMajedMajerMajesticDaveedMajurAlwaleedSayeedMajestyYazeedMajidWaheedKhaleedMajdiTauheedMajicNaveedSaheedFareedSyeedMajdSteed

Sibling names for Majeed

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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