Naji
given name · Latin script
Meaning: intimate friend, bosom friend.~' Comp
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naji is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 313K
- LYLibya≈1 in 5.6K
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
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Libya, 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)
intimate friend, bosom friend.~' Comp. Naaji .,=4, saved
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naji 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 | #871 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 7K | listed | Naji | 85 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Naji | 88 |
| YE Yemen | #361 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Naji | 46 |
| LY Libya | #165 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Naji | 30 |
| US United States | — | 1,064 | 1 in 313K | 1.4K | Naji | 219 |
| LB Lebanon | #844 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Naji | 55 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Naji | 75 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Naji 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.
In Arabic, intimate friend, bosom friend
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, saved, liberated, safe
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, mature; perceptive
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, saved, secure
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Seguro, a salvo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Naji al-Qashtinib. 1899IQIraqi poet
- Nāǧī at-Takrītīb. 1932IQnot in their usual nameIraqi writer
- Nagy Kamelb. 1934EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian caricaturist
- Naji Jaberb. 1940SYSyrian actor (1940–2009)
- Naji Hakimb. 1955FRLebanese-French composer, organist and improviser
- Naji ibn Dawud al-Hirzb. 1959SASaudi Arabian poet
- Neji Khachnaouib. 1975TNnot in their usual nameTunisian writer, poet and journalist
- Naji Abu Nowarb. 1981GBJordanian film director
- Abu Hamzab. 1995PSnot in their usual nameOfficial Spokesman for Al-Quds Brigades
- Naji Marshallb. 1998USAmerican basketball player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,072 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 740 | #31,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 396 | #49,767 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Naji come from?
- intimate friend, bosom friend.~' Comp. Naaji .,=4, saved Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What does the name Naji mean?
- Recorded meaning: intimate friend, bosom friend.~' Comp.
- Is Naji a male or female name?
- Naji 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.
- What are other forms of the name Naji?
- In the etymology graph, Naci is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Naji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Naji in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naji.
- How common is the name Naji?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,064 people named Naji in 2020, about 1 in 313 thousand residents.
- How common is Naji compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Naji is the 871st 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/najiThe 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, “Naji” — the 871st most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.