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Najah

#12,783 in 2025Girls' name

Success

Najah has been given to 1,891 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #12,783 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 101 recorded.

Babies named Najah, 2025

1 in 474,000

Najah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Najah: meaning, origin, and history

Success

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Najah means

Najah means “success”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Najah is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /na.ˈd͡ʒaːħ/ for Najah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,857 girls were recorded with the name Najah between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 101 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,649 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,604 in 2020 to #12,783 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,784 in 2015 to #12,783 in 2025.

In the United States, 34 boys were recorded with the name Najah between 1990 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2004; its best national rank was #6,391 in 2004.

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 Najah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,783
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Najah 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Najah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Najahs were born

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

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,857
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (668).

Is Najah 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
−5,628
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,179
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,999
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.9%
Peak was 1999 (101)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,649
1999

Spellings of Najah

Najah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 83.6% against Najah's 0.14%.

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.

Where Najah is used

Across 1910–2025, Najah was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 135,967 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Najah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Najah around the world

Where Najah 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
    1997–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1962–2025
    #4,270
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1993–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Najah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,783
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,179
Best rank ever
#1,649
1999
Peak year
1999
101 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,857
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,391
2004
Peak year
2004
12 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
34
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Najah

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

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Sibling names for Najah

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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