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Najla

#8,203 in 2025Girls' name

Wide-eyed

Najla has been given to 653 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #8,203 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Najla, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Najla: meaning, origin, and history

Wide-eyed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Najla means

Najla means “wide-eyed”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 653 girls were recorded with the name Najla between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2001; its best national rank was #3,723 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,064 in 2020 to #8,203 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,567 in 2015 to #8,203 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 Najla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,203
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Najla 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Najla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Najlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Najla was born before 1998 — so the typical Najla is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
653
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Najla 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
+6,540
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,861
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,364
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2001 (26)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,723
1978

Spellings of Najla

Najla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 22.1% against Najla's 0.04%.

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 Najla is used

Across 1910–2025, Najla was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,704,206 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Najla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Najla around the world

Where Najla 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2024
    #7,495
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2000
    #2,489
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Najla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,203
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,861
Best rank ever
#3,723
1978
Peak year
2001
26 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
653
Count in 2025
13

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

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Sibling names for Najla

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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