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Naveen vs Navya

American parents have registered 2,111 Navyas since 1880, against 1,847 Naveens. Navya is still ahead, with 87 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Naveen 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 54 years in which either name was published, Naveen for 31 years and Navya for 23 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Naveen Navya
Total US births 1,8472,111
Most in one year 82127
Babies in 2025 7287
Estimated living today 1,8002,100
Median age today 1310
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 2,056th boys1,686th girls
Rank in 2025 2,056th2,139th
First recorded 19721994
Girls / boys 339 / 1,5082,111 / 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 Naveens alive today are over 13; half the Navyas are over 10. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Naveen Navya
England and Wales 149363

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: Naveen and Navya.