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Navaeh vs Navany

American parents have registered 1,628 Navaehs since 1880, against 200 Navanys. But in 2025 it was Navany that was commoner, 93 babies to 33.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Navaeh against Navany, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Navaeh Navany

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 25 years in which either name was published, Navaeh for 23 years and Navany for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Navaeh Navany
Total US births 1,628200
Most in one year 10593
Babies in 2025 3393
Estimated living today 1,600200
Median age today 131
Peak year 20102025
Best rank 1,913th girls2,036th girls
Rank in 2025 4,265th2,036th
First recorded 20012022
Girls / boys 1,628 / 0200 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Navaehs alive today are over 13; half the Navanys are over 1. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Navaeh and Navany.