Najah
Feminine · “success”
Najah is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,857 girls against 34 boys since 1880.
Arabic gives children abstract nouns and does it more than almost any other language. Iman is faith, Amal is hope, Nour is light, Ihsan is excellence, Najah is success. They are ordinary words, and because most of them are grammatically neuter in effect, they are given to sons and daughters alike.
How old is the name Najah?
Najah first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Najah alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 1,800 people named Najah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Najah most popular?
Najah peaked in 1999, reaching #1647 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 10,285 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From najah to Najah
The story of Najah
The Arabic verbal noun is a machine for making names. Any verb produces one, it works as an abstract noun, and a large number of them have been given as names for centuries: Najah from succeeding, Amal from hoping, Iman from believing, Ihsan from doing well, Rida from being satisfied. Because they are nouns rather than adjectives they carry no grammatical gender that a name has to respect, which is why so many of them go to both sexes and why an Arabic speaker meeting Najah on a form has no way of guessing. That is a genuine structural feature rather than a coincidence, and it distinguishes this class of names from almost anything English produces.
Meaning
success, achievement
Arabic najah, success or the accomplishment of something, from a verb meaning to succeed. It is an ordinary noun in current use — a student who passes an exam has najah — and it is given as a name to both boys and girls, which is why the American records show both.
How the name formed
- najah
- Najah
Related forms: Najah · Necah
Pronouncing Najah
nah-JAH
Two syllables, stress on the second, with the final h lightly breathed rather than silent. English speakers usually front-load it as NAY-juh, which is a different word.
Nicknames for Najah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 1999101 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1647reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −56.3%7 in 2025, from 16
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Najah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Najah in Arabic — same name
- Necah in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Minnesota.
Najahs among us
people named Najah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Najah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Youlanda test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Najah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Youlanda climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Youlanda's path sketches the road Najah is walking now.
Najah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Najah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Najah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Arabic meaning that is an ordinary, cheerful, current word.
- It serves either child, which is a genuine feature of its grammar rather than an accident.
- Two syllables with nothing difficult for an English speaker.
- English speakers move the stress to the front and change the first vowel.
- Najah, Naja and Nagah all appear in transliteration.
- The final h is lightly sounded in Arabic and completely silent in English.
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Frequently asked
- How many Najahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Najah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Najah in 2025?
- Najah ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Najah?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Najah — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Najah with classmates?
- Najah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Najah
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