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Najae vs Najee

American parents have registered 3,172 Najees since 1880, against 661 Najaes. Najee is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Najae against Najee, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Najae Najee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Najee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Najae had 22 and Najee had 24.

Side by side

  Najae Najee
Total US births 6613,172
Most in one year 53245
Babies in 2025 under 517
Estimated living today 6503,100
Median age today 2228
Peak year 19991993
Best rank 2,812th girls704th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,399th
First recorded 19921977
Girls / boys 578 / 83417 / 2,755

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Najees alive today are over 28; half the Najaes are over 22. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Najae and Najee.