Najee
Last seen for girls in 2012 at #14,962 · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to boys 86.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 217 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,755since 1977
Najee over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,399 | 17 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,896 | 28 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,629 | 31 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,919 | 43 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,180 | 37 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,275 | 23 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,426 | 33 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,708 | 29 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,518 | 31 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,327 | 23 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,591 | 30 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,985 | 38 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,064 | 24 | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #3,223 | 35 |
| 2008 | — | #2,467 | 51 | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #2,442 | 52 |
| 2006 | — | #2,659 | 44 | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #2,365 | 49 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #2,376 | 47 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 | #1,682 | 70 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #1,472 | 83 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | #1,573 | 75 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 | #1,142 | 115 |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 | #948 | 148 |
| 1997 | #3,161 | 37 | #1,143 | 108 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 | #914 | 143 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 | #931 | 142 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | #881 | 151 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #704 | 217 |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 | #923 | 132 |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | #856 | 149 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | #937 | 121 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | #962 | 112 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 | #1,164 | 75 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #1,439 | 50 |
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| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
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| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
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| 1978 | — | #3,614 | 10 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Najee! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Najee is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#261 · 1 in 1,946
- New York#438 · 1 in 3,598
- Virginia#572 · 1 in 5,574
- North Carolina#645 · 1 in 6,555
- Georgia#727 · 1 in 6,922
Best ever in a state: #193 in New Jersey, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #261 | 25 | 1 in 1,946 |
| New York | #438 | 33 | 1 in 3,598 |
| Virginia | #572 | 7 | 1 in 5,574 |
| North Carolina | #645 | 7 | 1 in 6,555 |
| Georgia | #727 | 7 | 1 in 6,922 |
| Pennsylvania | #758 | 6 | 1 in 11,391 |
| Illinois | #892 | 7 | 1 in 11,562 |
| Florida | #1,154 | 5 | 1 in 16,978 |
| California | #1,228 | 11 | 1 in 23,050 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Najee
- 1,503 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #5,399)
- 1,124 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #5,399)
- 1,808 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #5,399)
- Biggest jump: 219 spots in 1993 (#923 → #704)
- Biggest drop: 229 spots in 1997 (#914 → #1,143)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1993 at #704 (217 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1989–1996
- Highest: 1 in 9,038 boys born in 1993 were named Najee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 51.8% of all boys named Najee (1,426) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 15 | #3,614 (1978) | #4,730 |
| 1980s | 268 | #962 (1989) | #3,869 |
| 1990s | 1,426 | #704 (1993) | #938 |
| 2000s | 571 | #1,472 (2001) | #2,207 |
| 2010s | 296 | #2,985 (2014) | #3,648 |
| 2020s | 179 | #2,919 (2022) | #3,883 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Najee in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 47,379 of them was named Najee, which outranked 80.2% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,093Zakiyyah38
- #3,093Zayna38
- #3,093Zenaida38
- #3,149Najee37
- #3,149Aeriel37
- #3,149Aidee37
- #3,149Aisling37
- #3,237Alexiss36
- #3,237Aleya36
- #3,237Alicea36
Tied with 87 names at #3,149; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 13,247 of them was named Najee, which outranked 91.3% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).