Najada

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Najada has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 1999, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Najada, 2002

1 in 747,000

Najada over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Najada: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Najada means

Najada is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Najada is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Najada between 1999 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1999; its best national rank was #13,887 in 1999.

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.

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How common is Najada?

Najada had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002: 1 in 747,000; 5 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 518,097 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Najada sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Najada. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Najadas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Najada was born before 1999 — so the typical Najada is around 26 today.

Median birth year: 1999; About 26 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Najada 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1999 (6)
Years since peak: 26; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #13,887; 1999

Spellings of Najada

Najada is not the most common spelling — Jada is, with 72.1% against Najada's 0.01%.

Jada72.1%67,400
Nada5.5%5,129
Lavada4.8%4,489
Nevada3.4%3,190
Amada2.7%2,533
Najah2.0%1,857
Naida1.8%1,714
Naja1.4%1,275

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.

Najada by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #13,887; 1999
Peak year: 1999; 6 that year
First recorded: 1999
Last recorded: 2002
All-time count: 11
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Najada

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

Najeli Najuma Najaah Najaya Najera Najila Najala Najd Najya Najea Najiah Eliada Najayah Najirah Najilah Najelly Najely Elvada Senada Najay Savada Narada Mayada Najmah

Sibling names for Najada

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

For a sister

Tatianna Caleigh Chyna Kaylah Calista Destini Carson Kayley

For a brother

Jaren Marshal Maximillian Reyes Stone Devyn Garrison Tyrese

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