Navia vs Navy

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Navia Navy

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 37 years in which either name was published, Navy for 24 years and Navia for 13 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1985–1992 Navy ahead
• 1993 Navia ahead
• 1994 Navy ahead
• 1995–1999 Navia ahead
• 2000–2001 Navy ahead
• 2002–2008 Navia ahead
• 2009–2025 Navy ahead

Side by side

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 Navias alive today are over 12; half the Navys are over 3. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

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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