diff --git a/keras/applications/convnext.py b/keras/applications/convnext.py
index 01a0a5e2b8a..bf488f051ef 100644
--- a/keras/applications/convnext.py
+++ b/keras/applications/convnext.py
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ def apply(x):
     return apply
 
 
-def Head(num_classes=1000, name=None):
+def Head(num_classes=1000, classifier_activation=None, name=None):
     """Implementation of classification head of RegNet.
 
     Args:
@@ -342,7 +342,9 @@ def apply(x):
         x = layers.LayerNormalization(
             epsilon=1e-6, name=name + "_head_layernorm"
         )(x)
-        x = layers.Dense(num_classes, name=name + "_head_dense")(x)
+        x = layers.Dense(num_classes,
+                         activation=classifier_activation,
+                         name=name + "_head_dense")(x)
         return x
 
     return apply
@@ -522,7 +524,9 @@ def ConvNeXt(
         cur += depths[i]
 
     if include_top:
-        x = Head(num_classes=classes, name=model_name)(x)
+        x = Head(num_classes=classes,
+                 classifier_activation=classifier_activation,
+                 name=model_name)(x)
         imagenet_utils.validate_activation(classifier_activation, weights)
 
     else: