Neji
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neji is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 243K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 4.3K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 215K
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.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neji 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Neji | 13 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Neji | 21 |
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Neji | 103 |
| IT Italy | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 557K | 1 | — | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Neji | 27 |
| BE Belgium | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 553K | 16 | Neji | 9 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Neji 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 tut-pro, louse, nit
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ねじ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tut-pro, вошь, гнида
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Abdel Majid Najib. 1936TNnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player
- Said Nejib. 1953TNTunisian businessman
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16 | #54,207 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #365,759 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Neji?
- A machine transcription gives /nʒi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Neji a male or female name?
- Neji 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 Neji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Neji in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neji.
- How common is the name Neji?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5 people named Neji in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Neji?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nejiThe 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, “Neji”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.