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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

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Boy name variations

Naji

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : variant of Arabic Naji, from an Arabic word meaning ‘close friend’. Najiullah ‘friend of Allah’ is an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad.
  • Indian (Panjab) : Hindu and Sikh name based on the name of a subgroup of the Tank goldsmiths of the Panjab, from Sanskrit nāgī ‘one with serpents’, which is an epithet of the god Shiva.

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