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Navany vs Naveen

American parents have registered 1,847 Naveens since 1880, against 200 Navanys. But in 2025 it was Navany that was commoner, 93 babies to 72.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Navany against Naveen, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Navany Naveen

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 54 years in which either name was published, Naveen for 53 years and Navany for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Navany Naveen
Total US births 2001,847
Most in one year 9382
Babies in 2025 9372
Estimated living today 2001,800
Median age today 113
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 2,036th girls2,056th boys
Rank in 2025 2,036th2,056th
First recorded 20221972
Girls / boys 200 / 0339 / 1,508

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 Naveens 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: Navany and Naveen.