Najuma
given name · Latin script
Meaning: She abounds in joy (The book of African names)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/naʄuma/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Najuma is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 75K(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 290K
- USUnited States≈1 in 5.9Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Najuma
- Swahili:/naʄuma/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)She abounds in joy
Cited for this meaning 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Najuma 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 294K | 1 | Najuma | 23 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 552K | — | Najuma | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Najuma | 2 |
| US United States | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | 5 | Najuma | 60 |
| KE Kenya | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Najuma | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | — |
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); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Najuma 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.
Abundantly joyful.
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Najuma mean, and where does it come from?
- She abounds in joy Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Najuma?
- In Swahili /naʄuma/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Najuma a male or female name?
- Najuma 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Najuma?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Najuma in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled najuma. After it come Pakistan, South Africa, United States and Kenya; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Najuma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Najuma is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Najuma?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 10 people named Najuma in 2025, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/najumaThe 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, “Najuma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.