Najja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Baganda of Uganda: name for second-born children
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/nɑˈjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Najja is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
177 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Baganda of Uganda: name for second-born children.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Najja 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 177 | 1 in 1.9M | 89 | Najja | 4 |
| IN India | — | — | 4 | Najja | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | — | 59 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 34 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | — | 7 | — | — |
177 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)Najja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Second born.
as a nameThe African book of names
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.
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 89 | #41,400 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 88 | #41,400 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Najja mean, and where does it come from?
- Baganda of Uganda: name for second-born children. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Najja?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑˈjə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Najja a male or female name?
- Najja is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Najja have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 177 people named Najja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled najja.
- Where is Najja most common?
- Najja is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Najja?
- In the United States, the national register counted 177 people named Najja in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/najjaThe 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, “Najja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.