Ngozi
A girls’ name of Igbo origin, meaning blessing.
Babies a year
5
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4201
5 babies
Ngozi by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Ngozi. In the US, 10 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 20 babies in 1997, making it a 1990s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Ngozi. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Naomipleasantness3,828 in the US (2017)
- Nyomipleasantness; a modern respelling of Naomi194 in the US (2017)
- Niomipleasantness; a form of Naomi44 in the US (2017)
- Neomia variant spelling of naomi; pleasantness13 in the US (2017)
- Naokivaries by kanji; commonly straight or honest tree7 in the US (2017)
- Nkosiking or chief7 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a blessing
Like Ngozi, each of these has a blessing in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Ngozi
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