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

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Peak · boys
#704
1993 · 217 births
Debut · boys
1977
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,755
since 1977

Najee over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201992peak #3,087, 1995peak #704, 1993girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#5,39917
2024—#3,89628
2023—#3,62931
2022—#2,91943
2021—#3,18037
2020—#4,27523
2019—#3,42633
2018—#3,70829
2017—#3,51831
2016—#4,32723
2015—#3,59130
2014—#2,98538
2013—#4,06424
2012#14,9626#3,62529
2011—#3,99425
2010#14,9596#3,23934
2009#15,2426#3,22335
2008—#2,46751
2007#12,6768#2,44252
2006—#2,65944
2005#11,8348#2,36549
2004#12,7617#2,37647
2003#6,57617#1,81565
2002#7,81613#1,68270
2001#8,75811#1,47283
2000#4,40027#1,57375
1999#4,87022#1,142115
1998#5,58318#948148
1997#3,16137#1,143108
1996#3,14937#914143
1995#3,08737#931142
1994#4,52122#881151
1993#3,77628#704217
1992#4,52822#923132
1991#3,93626#856149
1990#5,28617#937121
1989#5,04917#962112
1988#5,32115#1,16475
1987#6,78810#1,43950
1986——
1985—#6,5235
1984—#4,9737
1983—#5,4846
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1981—#5,4686
1980—#4,9407
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1978—#3,61410
1977—#5,8455
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First appearance
1977

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.

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Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
16 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 1993 at #704 (217 births)
  • Births halved by 1997, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 9 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1989–1996
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,038
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 51.8% of all boys named Najee (1,426) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s15#3,614 (1978)#4,730
1980s268#962 (1989)#3,869
1990s1,426#704 (1993)#938
2000s571#1,472 (2001)#2,207
2010s296#2,985 (2014)#3,648
2020s179#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 1992

girls
#4,528
22 births · 1 in 83,815 girls
boys
#923
132 births · 1 in 15,132 boys

Top girls' names in 1992

  1. #1Ashley38,460
  2. #2Jessica38,361
  3. #3Amanda25,039
  4. #4Brittany24,983
  5. #5Sarah24,634
  6. #6Samantha24,407
  7. #7Emily21,835
  8. #8Stephanie19,680
  9. #9Elizabeth19,035
  10. #10Megan17,842
  11. #4,528Najee22

Top boys' names in 1992

  1. #1Michael54,410
  2. #2Christopher42,468
  3. #3Matthew37,733
  4. #4Joshua36,221
  5. #5Andrew30,542
  6. #6Brandon29,628
  7. #7Daniel29,157
  8. #8Tyler28,806
  9. #9James28,513
  10. #10David28,425
  11. #923Najee132
More about 1992

girls

1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 83,815 of them was named Najee, which outranked 71.0% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Najee
  1. #4,382Wynonna23
  2. #4,382Yaneth23
  3. #4,382Zully23
  4. #4,528Najee22
  5. #4,528Adriann22
  6. #4,528Ajah22
  7. #4,528Alethia22
  8. #4,686Aaren21
  9. #4,686Abra21
  10. #4,686Aleia21

Tied with 157 names at #4,528; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1991
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,282Darian#2,989 → #707
  2. ↑ 1,958Payton#2,660 → #702
  3. ↑ 1,450Peyton#2,034 → #584
  4. ↑ 1,115Chandler#1,656 → #541
  5. ↑ 1,080Brianda#1,857 → #777
Fallers
  1. ↓ 855Rebeccah#1,000 → #1,855
  2. ↓ 725Ieshia#717 → #1,442
  3. ↓ 502Miesha#997 → #1,499
  4. ↓ 470Unknown#794 → #1,264
  5. ↓ 356Phylicia#928 → #1,284

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 15,132 of them was named Najee, which outranked 90.6% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Najee
  1. #917Garrick133
  2. #917Jerod133
  3. #917Marques133
  4. #923Najee132
  5. #923Dalvin132
  6. #923Domingo132
  7. #923Elvin132
  8. #931Chaim131
  9. #931Garett131
  10. #931Justyn131

Tied with 7 names at #923; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1991
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,348Dalvin#7,271 → #923
  2. ↑ 3,435Jalen#3,813 → #378
  3. ↑ 2,026Davante#2,828 → #802
  4. ↑ 1,555Davonta#2,469 → #914
  5. ↑ 1,383Juwan#2,344 → #961
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,632Unnamed#972 → #3,604
  2. ↓ 450Octavius#945 → #1,395
  3. ↓ 398Male#679 → #1,077
  4. ↓ 394Khiry#915 → #1,309
  5. ↓ 379Dijon#915 → #1,294

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1992 →