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Navany vs Navi

American parents have registered 2,031 Navis since 1880, against 200 Navanys. Navi is still ahead, with 249 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Navany against Navi, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Navany Navi

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

Navi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1999 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Navany had 93 and Navi had 249.

Side by side

  Navany Navi
Total US births 2002,031
Most in one year 93249
Babies in 2025 93249
Estimated living today 2002,000
Median age today 14
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 2,036th girls1,250th girls
Rank in 2025 2,036th1,250th
First recorded 20221999
Girls / boys 200 / 01,572 / 459

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 Navis alive today are over 4; half the Navanys are over 1. That is 3 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: Navany and Navi.