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Najib

#10,356 in 2025Boys' name

Noble, distinguished

Najib has been given to 376 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #10,356 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Najib, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Najib: meaning, origin, and history

Noble, distinguished

Arabic

What Najib means

Najib means “noble, distinguished”.

Origin, language, and formation

Najib is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Najib comes through Arabic نَجِيب.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 376 boys were recorded with the name Najib between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2007; its best national rank was #4,703 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,452 in 2020 to #10,356 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,867 in 2015 to #10,356 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Najib?

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 boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,356
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Najibs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Najib was born before 2006 — so the typical Najib is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
376
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Choose a decade

2000s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Najib 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
−2,764
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,096
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,489
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.9%
Peak was 2007 (18)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,703
1979

Spellings of Najib

Najib is not the most common spelling — Nasir is, with 40.5% against Najib's 0.85%.

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 Najib is used

Across 1910–2025, Najib was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,652,519 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Najib has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Najib around the world

Where Najib 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
    1997–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    1955–2025
    #3,121
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1985–1993
    #519
    in 1993

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.

Najib by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,356
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,096
Best rank ever
#4,703
1979
Peak year
2007
18 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
376
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Najib

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

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Sibling names for Najib

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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