Najia
Najia is a name with a single cultural origin: Arabic.
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Najia
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Najia is a name with a single cultural origin: Arabic.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Najia
American parents first put Najia on the record books as a baby girl name in 1986, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2000, when 20 Najias were born — ranking #5,490 that year. About 39% of every Najia on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Najia last appeared in the published SSA data in 2017, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 268 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Najia
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Najia. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Najiyya
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About the name Najia
Najia is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1986 and has accumulated 268 births in the dataset. Najia's peak popularity came in 2000 when it ranked #5,490. Use the chart and map above to compare Najia's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.