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Najma

#5,853 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Najm

Najma has been given to 885 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #5,853 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Najma, 2025

1 in 158,000

Najma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Najma: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Najm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Najma means

Najma is a feminine form of Najm.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Najma → Najm. The family’s meaning is “star”, recorded in the naming reference for Najm.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Najm.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 885 girls were recorded with the name Najma between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,842 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,332 in 2020 to #5,853 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,371 in 2015 to #5,853 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 Najma?

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 girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,853
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Najmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Najma was born before 2010 — so the typical Najma is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
885
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Choose a decade

2000s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (307).

Is Najma 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
+475
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,521
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,482
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.3%
Peak was 2016 (38)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,842
2001

Spellings of Najma

Najma is not the most common spelling — Norma is, with 33.6% against Najma's 0.11%.

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 Najma is used

Across 1910–2025, Najma was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 107,548 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 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. Najma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Najma around the world

Where Najma 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–1982
    #530
    in 1982
  • France
    1974–2025
    #2,297
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2016
    #544
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Najma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,853
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,521
Best rank ever
#3,842
2001
Peak year
2016
38 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
885
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Najma

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

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Sibling names for Najma

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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