Najibullah
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name from Arabic, an Islamic name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌnædʒɪˈbʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Najibullah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 667(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- SESweden1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 667 (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Mohammad, Afghan president
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Najibullah is read(measured from records)
Najibullah is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Pashto35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Najibullah in Pashto.
- English12%
Mohammad, Afghan president
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
A male given name from Arabic, an Islamic name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Najibullah in Hindi.
- Turkish7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Najibullah in Turkish.
- Arabic6.6%
distinguished (servant) of Allah
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Najibullah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #40 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 667 | 6 | Najibullah | 40 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 337K | — | Najibullah | 14 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 292K | listed | Najibullah | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Najibullah | 12 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Najibullah | 15 |
| US United States | — | 267 | 1 in 1.2M | 265 | Najibullah | 101 |
| SE Sweden | — | 116 | 1 in 88K | 116 | Najibullah | 11 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 182K | 1 | Najibullah | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Najibullah | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 27 | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the wgnd-eg-names register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Najibullah Khwaja Omarib. 1955AFPolitician
- Najibullah Zazib. 1985AFAfghan member of Al-Qaeda
- Najibullah Zadranb. 1993PKcricketer
- Najibullah Yousufib. 1999AFbadminton player
- Najibullah Quraishib. 2000AFJournalist and filmmaker
- Najibullah Najmb. 2000AFAfghan athletics competitor
- Najibullah HaqqaniAFMinister of Communications and Information Technology of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Najibullah RafiAFGovernor of Nimruz Province
- Najibullah LafraieNZAfghan politician and politics academic in New Zealand
- Najibullah KakarDEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2611-7528
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 265 | #31,866 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 116 | #7,719 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 108 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 105 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 93 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 74 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 67 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 60 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 56 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 51 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 47 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 39 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Najibullah come from?
- Mohammad, Afghan president Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Najibullah?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌnædʒɪˈbʊɫə/ (IPA) for Pashto.
- What does the name Najibullah mean?
- In English, A male given name from Arabic, an Islamic name.
- Is Najibullah a male or female name?
- Najibullah is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Najibullah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Najibullah in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled najibullah.
- How common is the name Najibullah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 267 people named Najibullah in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Najibullah compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Najibullah is the 40th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Najibullah?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/najibullahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Najibullah” — the 40th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.