Ngozi — #12390 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ngozi

The Social Security Administration has registered 512 babies named Ngozi between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ngozi currently holds the #12390 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Ngozi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 26 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ngozi performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ngozi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ngozi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ngozi 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 512 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.