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Najee

#5,533 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Najee has been given to 3,172 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #5,533 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 217 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.

Babies named Najee, 2025

1 in 195,000

Najee over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Najee over time

In 2025, Najee went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19772025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Najee: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Najee means

Najee is a given name.

The naming story behind Najee

Wikidata records Najee as a given name. The entity identifier is Q56240588, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,755 boys were recorded with the name Najee between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 217 in 1993; its best national rank was #703 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,373 in 2020 to #5,533 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,654 in 2015 to #5,533 in 2025.

In the United States, 417 girls were recorded with the name Najee between 1987 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1995; its best national rank was #3,136 in 1995.

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 Najee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,533
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Najee 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 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Najee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Najees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Najee was born before 1997 — so the typical Najee is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
51.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,755
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 51.8% of all recorded uses (1,426).

Is Najee 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
−1,580
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,160
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,879
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.8%
Peak was 1993 (217)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#703
1993

Spellings of Najee

Najee is not the most common spelling — Nate is, with 20.5% against Najee's 12.6%.

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 Najee is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Najee was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 72,618 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 12,500
  2. 2New York1 in 33,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Najee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Najee is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Najee was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 629,353 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Najee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Najee around the world

Where Najee 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.

  • South Australia
    1998–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Najee

People whose public names include Najee, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Najee by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,533
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,160
Best rank ever
#703
1993
Peak year
1993
217 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,755
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,136
1995
Peak year
1995
37 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
417
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Najee

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

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Names with a curve like Najee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Najee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Najee

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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