Naijah
Naijah was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,398 among girls’ names; 225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naijah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naijah?
#14,398 among girls’ names, 2025
Naijah rose from #15,831 in 2015 to #14,398 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
21 babies in 2003, the peak
Naijah peaked in 2003, when 21 girls were given it, #5,730 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,398 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,738 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,867 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,938 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,790 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,045 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,100 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,831 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,281 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,991 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 17 | #7,583 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,834 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,534 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,522 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,206 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,698 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,730 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,703 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,867 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,039 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,618 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,816 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,566 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,009 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naijah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naijah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naijah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naijah, and how old are they?
An estimated 223 Americans named Naijah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 17 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 198 people named Naijah (185 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 198 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,828 babies since 1880, Naijah is the fifth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 21 babies (29%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Naijah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Naijah and names like it
- Compare Naijah and NajahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNaijah peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Naijah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Naijah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.