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Navany vs Naveah

American parents have registered 1,814 Naveahs since 1880, against 200 Navanys. But in 2025 it was Navany that was commoner, 93 babies to 87.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Navany against Naveah, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Navany Naveah

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, Naveah for 24 years and Navany for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Navany Naveah
Total US births 2001,814
Most in one year 93133
Babies in 2025 9387
Estimated living today 2001,800
Median age today 18
Peak year 20252022
Best rank 2,036th girls1,590th girls
Rank in 2025 2,036th2,139th
First recorded 20222001
Girls / boys 200 / 01,814 / 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 Naveahs alive today are over 8; half the Navanys are over 1. That is 7 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 Naveah.