Najat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: rescue, salvation, deliverance
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəʒæt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Najat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country. In Libya it is the 87th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 11K
- ESSpain1 in 11K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, 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)
rescue, salvation, deliverance. a53 ly SUN MI Gigesdy Bla! QI aSgeal Qt L "And, O my people, how is it that I call you to deliverance while you call me to the fire?"
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Najat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #137 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Najat | 69 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,430 | 1 in 11K | 4.4K | Najat | 47 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1.3K | Najat | 211 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Najat | 59 |
| LY Libya | #87 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Najat | 21 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 6 | Najat | 41 |
| KW Kuwait | #790 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Najat | 42 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Najat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Safe
as a nameThe book of African names
In Arabic, rescue, salvation, deliverance. See Najat (m.)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, safety, rescue, salvation, deliverance
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
A salvo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Czech, masculine singular passive participle of najmout
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Najat Maalla M’jidb. 1901MAMoroccan pediatrician, United Nations Special Representative
- Nagat Elsaghirab. 1938EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian singer and actress
- Najat Makkib. 1956AEEmirati artist
- Najat Aâtaboub. 1960MAMoroccan singer, songwriter and composer
- Najat Vallaud-Belkacemb. 1977MAFrench-Moroccan politician
- Najat El Hachmib. 1979ESMoroccan-Spanish writer
- Najat Kaanacheb. 1987ESChef, Spanish Actress
- Najat Badrib. 1988MAMoroccan association football player
- Najat Ouardadb. 1990FRFrench basketball player (born 1990)
- Najat Salibab. 2000LBLebanese analytical chemist
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 42 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.4K | #967 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4K | #536 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2017 | 1.3K | #3,295 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 6 | #1,015 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| ES Spain | 25,000 Nombres de Bebé (Vázquez de Haro, 2005) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Najat come from?
- rescue, salvation, deliverance. a53 ly SUN MI Gigesdy Bla! QI aSgeal Qt L "And, O my people, how is it that I call you to deliverance while you call me to the fire?" Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Najat?
- A machine transcription gives /nəʒæt/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Najat mean?
- Recorded meaning: rescue, salvation, deliverance.
- Is Najat a male or female name?
- Najat is a female 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 Najat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Najat in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled najat.
- How common is the name Najat?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,430 people named Najat, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Najat compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Najat is the 137th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/najatThe 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, “Najat” — the 137th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.