Nadav — #6563 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nadav

The Social Security Administration has registered 754 babies named Nadav between 1976 and 2024, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nadav currently holds the #6563 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 32 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nadav performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 251 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nadav shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 143 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Nadav in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nadav in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 754 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.