Najia — girls' name
268 babies named Najia in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Najia was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Najia in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Najia
The Social Security Administration has registered 268 babies named Najia between 1986 and 2017, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Najia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Najia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Najia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Najia in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Najia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 268 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Najia at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Najia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1986
- Peak year (2000)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
268 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 20 births in a single year.
Najia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 104 births that decade — 39% of Najia's all-time total
Najia decade highlights
- Peak decade 104 births
- Runner-up 99 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Najia's strongest decade
104 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Najia by state
Where Najia concentrates geographically — total births since 1986
Top 5 states
- Illinois 1.9% of nationwide
- New York 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.