Najibullah

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Наджибулла in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Najibullah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Bangla given name124 records spelled Najibullah7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Türkiye

  Also written Nazibullah, নাজিবুল্লা, নাজিবুল্লাহ, নজিবুল্লাহ, নজিবুল্লা

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Najibullah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A male given name from Arabic, an Islamic name.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Arabic, distinguished (servant) of Allah

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim 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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 74 years between 1922–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Najibullah Khwaja Omarib. 1955AFPolitician
• Najibullah Zazib. 1985AFAfghan member of Al-Qaeda
• Najibullah Zadranb. 1993PKcricketer
• Najibullah Yousufib. 1999AFbadminton player
• Najibullah Quraishib. 2000AFJournalist and filmmaker
• Najibullah Najmb. 2000AFAfghan athletics competitor
• Najibullah HaqqaniAFMinister of Communications and Information Technology of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
• Najibullah RafiAFGovernor of Nimruz Province
• Najibullah LafraieNZAfghan politician and politics academic in New Zealand
• Najibullah KakarDEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2611-7528

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 128 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Najibullah?

We estimate roughly 441 people bear Najibullah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Najibullah have the most bearers?

Najibullah is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled najibullah.

How common is Najibullah compared with other names?

In Afghanistan, Najibullah is the 39th most common given name of 22,039 given names recorded there.

Is Najibullah a male or female name?

Najibullah 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.

What does the name Najibullah mean?

Recorded meaning: Mohammad, Afghan president