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Najia

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Najiyya

Najia has been given to 268 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 2000, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Najia, 2017

1 in 715,000

Najia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Najia: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Najiyya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Najia means

Najia is a alternate transcription of Najiyya.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Najia is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /na.ˈd͡ʒiː.ja/ for Najia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Najiyya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 268 girls were recorded with the name Najia between 1986 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2000; its best national rank was #5,624 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 Najia?

Najia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Najia 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Najia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Najias were born

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

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
268
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1990s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Najia 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (20)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,624
2000

Spellings of Najia

Najia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 45.9% against Najia's 0.02%.

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 Najia is used

Across 1910–2025, Najia was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,045,642 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Najia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Najia around the world

Where Najia 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
    2001–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1958–2025
    #6,580
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Najia 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
#5,624
2000
Peak year
2000
20 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
268
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Najia

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

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Sibling names for Najia

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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