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.
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 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 328,644 of them was named Najee, which outranked 14.8% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,016 names at #5,845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.