Najib
given name · Latin script
Meaning: excellent, noble, distinguished, praiseworthy, generous, aristocratic
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Najib is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 3.2K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 16K
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)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
excellent, noble, distinguished, praiseworthy, generous, aristocratic
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Najib 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 | #312 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Najib | 21 |
| MA Morocco | #287 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Najib | 92 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Najib | 37 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Najib | 119 |
| TN Tunisia | #238 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Najib | 40 |
| MY Malaysia | #492 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Najib | 66 |
| US United States | — | 1,036 | 1 in 321K | 1K | Najib | 189 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Najib | 56 |
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. 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)
Najib is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, noble, distinguished, aristocratic, of noble descent
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Noble, of noble
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Uzbek, dear, worthy
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)
- Najib Nassarb. 1865PSPalestinian journalist
- Najib Mayel Heravib. 1950AFIranian-Afghan scholar of Persian manuscripts, literature, and Islamic mysticism (1950-)
- Najib Zerouali Ouaritib. 1950MAMoroccan politician
- Najib Razakb. 1953MYformer 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Mohamed Aghab. 1955LBnot in their usual namePresident of Lebanon (2022–2025), Prime Minister of Lebanon (2005; 2011–2014; 2021–2025)
- Michaeel Najeebb. 1955IQnot in their usual nameIraqi Chaldean Catholic archbishop
- Najib Amhalib. 1971NLStand-up comedian and actor (born 1971)
- Volts Faceb. 1992FRnot in their usual nameFrench-Algerian rapper
- Najib Ammarib. 1992FRAlgerian and French footballer
- Najib OudghiriFRFrench-Algerian actor
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 71 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 431 | #52,071 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 285 | #68,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 180 | #94,227 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Najib mean, and where does it come from?
- excellent, noble, distinguished, praiseworthy, generous, aristocratic Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Najib a male or female name?
- Najib 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 Najib?
- In the etymology graph, Nagib is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Najib have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Najib in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled najib.
- How common is the name Najib?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,036 people named Najib in 2020, about 1 in 321 thousand residents.
- How common is Najib compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Najib is the 312th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/najibThe 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, “Najib” — the 312th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.