girls:
1.3k births since 1964
#4447 (22nd percentile)
boys:
6 births since 2005
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1964
#6461 (16th percentile)
The name Naja is the #6,461 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,281 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 16.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,447 (22.2% percentile) for all time with 1,275 births since 1964. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2005.
Naja first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for girls and 2005 for boys). Birth data for Naja is available in 52 out of the 60 years between 1964 and 2023 (52 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Naja has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Naja reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 16.6% percentile (ranked #729) with 77 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 77 births per million (ranked 16.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Naja ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 5.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Naja reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #872) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Naja".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Naja. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.5% confident that Naja is pronounced as NAH-juh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NUH-juh, at 13.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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