Meaning not yet researched.
Najee: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #704 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #704 in 1993; #5,535 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Najee in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,535 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #704.
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Najee: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #704 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 217 (1993).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Najee, making it the 5,535th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,580 places from #3,955 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 28 boys named Najee in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #704, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 217. For comparison, it was #3,655 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Najee in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,141, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 37, in 1997. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Najee in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 3,172 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,692 babies named Najee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 295 US boys were named Najee; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Naji, Najia and Najeh 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Naji (802), Najia (268), Najeh (91), Nahjee (38), Najea (19), Najya (16), Najih (5), Najji (5).
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 Najee 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,535 |
| 2024 | — | — | 28 | #3,955 |
| 2023 | — | — | 31 | #3,689 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,947 |
| 2021 | — | — | 37 | #3,224 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,377 |
| 2019 | — | — | 33 | #3,470 |
| 2018 | — | — | 29 | #3,764 |
| 2017 | — | — | 31 | #3,561 |
| 2016 | — | — | 23 | #4,426 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,655 |
| 2014 | — | — | 38 | #3,022 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,142 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,289 | 29 | #3,682 |
| 2011 | — | — | 25 | #4,071 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,360 | 34 | #3,288 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,649 | 35 | #3,253 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,497 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,543 | 52 | #2,466 |
| 2006 | — | — | 44 | #2,686 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,667 | 49 | #2,392 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,767 | 47 | #2,404 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,804 | 65 | #1,835 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,160 | 70 | #1,691 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,180 | 83 | #1,478 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,496 | 75 | #1,580 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,983 | 115 | #1,147 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,740 | 148 | #948 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,207 | 108 | #1,147 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,206 | 143 | #920 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,141 | 142 | #934 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,644 | 151 | #882 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,848 | 217 | #704 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,641 | 132 | #928 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,017 | 149 | #859 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,462 | 121 | #943 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,209 | 112 | #965 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,507 | 75 | #1,169 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,164 | 50 | #1,455 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,257 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,389 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,995 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,008 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,324 |
| 1978 | — | — | 10 | #3,769 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,532 |
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).