Nejat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Persian which means “nobility”
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/n̪eʒat̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nejat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 5.9K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 27K
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Persian which means “nobility”
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nejat 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Nejat | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Nejat | 72 |
| US United States | 281 | 1 in 1.2M | 202 | Nejat | 80 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Nejat | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 128 | 1 in 80K | 128 | Nejat | 8 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Nejat | 9 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Nejat 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.
In Turkish, 1. Soy, nesil. 2. Doğa, yaradılış, yapı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Nejat Eczacıbaşıb. 1913TRTurkish businessperson (1913–1993)
- Nejat Uygurb. 1927TRTurkish actor and comedian (1927–2013)
- Nejat Diyarbekirlib. 1928TRTurkish basketball player (1928–2017)
- Nejat Saydamb. 1929TRTurkish actor and director (1929–2000)
- Nejat Gürçenb. 1929TRTurkish actor (1936–1996)
- Necob. 1948TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor and singer (born 1948)
- Nejat Yavaşoğullarıb. 1950TRTurkish musician (born 1950)
- Nenad Bijedićb. 1959BAnot in their usual nameYugoslav footballer (1959–2011)
- Nejat İşlerb. 1972TRTurkish actor (born 1972)
- Nejat Zadeh Sahar Zamanianb. 1986IRbadminton 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).
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 185 | #30,816 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 128 | #7,215 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 108 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 105 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 99 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96 | #30,816 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 90 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 86 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 78 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 74 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 62 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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
- What does the name Nejat mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Persian which means “nobility” Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nejat?
- A machine transcription gives /n̪eʒat̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Nejat a male or female name?
- Nejat 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.
- In which country does Nejat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Nejat in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nejat.
- How common is the name Nejat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 281 people named Nejat in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nejat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nejatThe 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, “Nejat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.