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Naji

#4,813 in 2025Boys' name

Intimate friend

Naji has been given to 802 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #4,813 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Naji, 2025

1 in 158,000

Naji over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naji: meaning, origin, and history

Intimate friend

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naji means

Naji means “intimate friend”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 802 boys were recorded with the name Naji between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,900 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,806 in 2020 to #4,813 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,658 in 2015 to #4,813 in 2025.

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 Naji?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,813
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naji 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naji. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Najis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naji was born before 2005 — so the typical Naji is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
802
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (218).

Is Naji 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
−1,236
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+845
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.6%
Peak was 2024 (32)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,900
1998

Spellings of Naji

Naji is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 26.1% against Naji's 0.30%.

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 Naji is used

Across 1910–2025, Naji was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 593,207 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Virginia1 in —

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. Naji has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Naji around the world

Where Naji 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
    2006–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    1968–2025
    #4,938
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2022
    #2,778
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1959–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Naji by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,813
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7
Best rank ever
#2,900
1998
Peak year
2024
32 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
802
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Naji

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

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Sibling names for Naji

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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