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Navi vs Navya

American parents have registered 2,111 Navyas since 1880, against 2,031 Navis. But in 2025 it was Navi that was commoner, 249 babies to 87.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Navi Navya

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 31 years in which either name was published, Navya for 24 years and Navi for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Navi Navya
Total US births 2,0312,111
Most in one year 249127
Babies in 2025 24987
Estimated living today 2,0002,100
Median age today 410
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 1,250th girls1,686th girls
Rank in 2025 1,250th2,139th
First recorded 19991994
Girls / boys 1,572 / 4592,111 / 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 Navyas alive today are over 10; half the Navis are over 4. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Navi Navya
England and Wales 19363

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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