Given name & surname
Najibullah
“distinguished servant of the god Allah”
Najibullah is a masculine given name from Arabic, meaning “distinguished servant of the god Allah.”
Original Arabicنجيبالله
Meaning & origin
What it means
Najibullah means “distinguished servant of the god Allah.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Arabic نجيبالله (“distinguished servant of the god Allah”); its root is Arabic ن ج ب.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Najibullah’s family of names
In English usage, Najibullah has a related form in NAJEEBULLAH. In English usage, Najibullah has a conventional equivalent in the Kazakh form Нажибулла. In English usage, Najibullah has a conventional equivalent in نجيب الله.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Najibullah has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
Arabicwhere Najibullah comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Najibullah
- Najibullah Zadrancricketerborn 1993
- Najibullah ZaziAfghan member of Al-Qaedaborn 1985
- Najibullah QuraishiJournalist and filmmakerborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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