Meaning not yet researched.
Najah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,651 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,651 in 1999; #12,787 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Najah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,787 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,651.
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Najah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,651 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 101 (2003).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Najah, making it the 12,787th most common girls’ name of the year, down 5,628 places from #7,159 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 16 girls named Najah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,651, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 101, in 2003. For comparison, it was #5,786 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Najah in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 1,891 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 679 babies named Najah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 175 US girls were named Najah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Naja (1,281 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Najae, Naija and Naijah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Najae (661), Naija (419), Naijah (225), Najai (209), Najja (85), Nahjae (66), Nahja (58), Najay (52), Najayah (21), Najaya (21), Najaah (10), Nahjai (10), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Najah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,787 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,159 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,591 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,376 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,338 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,608 | — | — |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,739 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,441 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,730 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,126 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,786 | — | — |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,816 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,651 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,799 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,038 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,366 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,442 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,613 | — | — |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,355 | 5 | #13,781 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,469 | 12 | #6,397 |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,429 | 6 | #10,141 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,326 | — | — |
| 1999 | 101 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,703 | 6 | #9,272 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1993 | 57 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,826 | — | — |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,880 | 5 | #9,075 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,747 | — | — |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,607 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,890 | — | — |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,808 | — | — |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,906 | — | — |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,600 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,865 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,089 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,828 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,366 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,176 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,272 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).