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Ngozi

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Blessing

Ngozi has been given to 538 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1997, with 20 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Ngozi, 2024

1 in 478,000

Ngozi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ngozi over time

In 2024, Ngozi went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ngozi: meaning, origin, and history

Blessing

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ngozi means

Ngozi means “blessing”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ngozi is used in Igbo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 512 girls were recorded with the name Ngozi between 1971 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,880 in 1981.

In the United States, 26 boys were recorded with the name Ngozi between 1992 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2000; its best national rank was #9,393 in 1992.

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 Ngozi?

Ngozi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ngozi 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ngozi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ngozis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ngozi was born before 1996 — so the typical Ngozi is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
512
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Ngozi 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (20)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,880
1981

Spellings of Ngozi

Ngozi is not the most common spelling — Naomi is, with 93.7% against Ngozi's 0.25%.

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 Ngozi is used

Across 1910–2025, Ngozi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Ngozi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ngozi around the world

Where Ngozi 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
    2000–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ngozi 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
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Best rank ever
#4,880
1981
Peak year
1997
20 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
512
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,393
1992
Peak year
2000
6 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ngozi

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

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Sibling names for Ngozi

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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