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Njeri

Girls' name

Travelling one

Njeri has been given to 293 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 1971, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Njeri, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Njeri: meaning, origin, and history

Travelling one

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Njeri means

Njeri means “travelling one”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Njeri is used in Kikuyu.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 293 girls were recorded with the name Njeri between 1971 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1971; its best national rank was #3,756 in 1971.

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 Njeri?

Njeri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Njeri 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Njeri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Njeris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Njeri was born before 1991 — so the typical Njeri is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
293
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Njeri 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 1971 (17)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,756
1971

Spellings of Njeri

Njeri is not the most common spelling — Sheri is, with 22.2% against Njeri'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 Njeri is used

Across 1910–2025, Njeri was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 425,562 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  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. Njeri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Njeri around the world

Where Njeri 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
    1997–1997
    #3,824
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Njeri 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
#3,756
1971
Peak year
1971
17 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
293
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Njeri

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

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Sibling names for Njeri

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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