Najmi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Najmi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: of the star; star-like.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 301K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 350K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
of the star; star-like
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Najmi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Najmi | 13 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Najmi | 36 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 350K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | 309 | Najmi | 20 |
| FR France | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | 39 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 17 | — | — |
| NO Norway | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 899K | 16 | — | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Najmi 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.
va starlike; astral
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Edwin Najmib. 1992USAmerican grappler
- Amir NajmiUSPh.D. Stanford University 2000
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 309 | #68,578 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 224 | #83,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 173 | #97,384 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 36 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 17 | #26,520 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #46,876 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Najmi mean, and where does it come from?
- of the star; star-like Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Najmi a male or female name?
- Najmi 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 Najmi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Najmi in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled najmi.
- How common is the name Najmi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,500 people in Malaysia have Najmi as their first given name, about 1 in 21 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Najmi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/najmiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Najmi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.