Najee
Najee was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,533 among boys’ names; 3,172 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,090 Americans named Najee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Najee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Najee?
#5,533 among boys’ names, 2025
Najee fell from #3,654 in 2015 to #5,533 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 10.0 per million.
245 babies in 1993, the peak
Najee peaked in 1993, when 245 babies were given it (217 boys, #703 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 17 | #5,533 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 28 | #3,953 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 31 | #3,687 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 43 | #2,945 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 37 | #3,222 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 23 | #4,373 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 33 | #3,467 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 29 | #3,760 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 31 | #3,557 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 23 | #4,425 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 30 | #3,654 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 38 | #3,020 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 24 | #4,140 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,282 | 29 | #3,679 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 25 | #4,069 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,353 | 34 | #3,287 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,643 | 35 | #3,252 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 51 | #2,496 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,537 | 52 | #2,466 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 44 | #2,685 | |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,660 | 49 | #2,388 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,761 | 47 | #2,400 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,799 | 65 | #1,832 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,154 | 70 | #1,688 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,173 | 83 | #1,474 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,491 | 75 | #1,576 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,977 | 115 | #1,145 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,736 | 148 | #946 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,204 | 108 | #1,144 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,201 | 143 | #918 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,136 | 142 | #931 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,639 | 151 | #879 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,843 | 217 | #703 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,635 | 132 | #925 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,011 | 149 | #855 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,457 | 121 | #939 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,203 | 112 | #962 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,502 | 75 | #1,166 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,159 | 50 | #1,453 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #7,251 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 7 | #5,385 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,991 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #6,006 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 7 | #5,322 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 10 | #3,768 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,530 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Najee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,172 Americans recorded as Najee, 13% are girls and 87% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Najee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Najee, and how old are they?
3,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,172 Americans ever recorded as Najee. The median Najee alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,319 people named Najee (339 women and girls, 1,980 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,941 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 384 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Najee born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #1,962 | 1.9× |
Where Najee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Najee is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1977 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Najee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,150 babies since 1880, Najee is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 38 babies (45%), the second 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 Najee
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 Najee and names like it
- Compare Najee and NajiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNajee peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Najee since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Najee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Najee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.