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Najee

The boy's name Najee has been in the national records since 1977, with 3,172 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 5,399th. About 3,100 Najees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Najee boys named Najee

Girls and boys called Najee

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 417 girls and 2,755 boys in all, and in 2024 the split was 0 to 28.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 35 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
3,172
Estimated living today
3,100
Median age today
28
Peak year
1993
Best rank
704th
Rank in 2025
5,399th
First recorded
1977
Girls / boys
417 / 2,755

How old the living Najees are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,172 babies given the name since 1977, about 3,100 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 570 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Najee is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Najee is most concentrated in New Jersey (8.6×), New York (3.2×), Pennsylvania (2.1×), Georgia (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1993

The most popular boys’ names the year Najee peaked:

All the names of 1993

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.