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Najae vs Naji

American parents have registered 802 Najis since 1880, against 661 Najaes. Naji is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Najae against Naji, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Najae Naji

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

Of the 45 years in which either name was published, Naji for 30 years and Najae for 15 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Najae Naji
Total US births 661802
Most in one year 5332
Babies in 2025 under 521
Estimated living today 650790
Median age today 2220
Peak year 19992024
Best rank 2,812th girls3,524th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,707th
First recorded 19921980
Girls / boys 578 / 830 / 802

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 Najaes alive today are over 22; half the Najis are over 20. That is 2 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 Naji.