Nava
Nava was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,231 among girls’ names; 1,513 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Nava and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nava by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nava?
#2,231 among girls’ names, 2025
Nava rose from #2,545 in 2015 to #2,231 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 39.8 to 51.6 per million.
83 babies in 2025, the peak
Nava peaked in 2025, when 83 girls were given it, #2,231 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 65 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,231 | 51.6 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,686 | 40.1 |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,329 | 49.2 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,628 | 40.9 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,698 | 39.0 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,520 | 42.7 |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,348 | 45.9 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,377 | 45.3 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,893 | 33.6 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,689 | 36.7 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,545 | 39.8 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,128 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,066 | 30.8 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,995 | 32.4 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,586 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,146 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,784 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,250 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,443 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,434 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,552 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,007 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,194 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,833 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,233 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,709 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,625 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,739 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,501 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,633 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,530 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,549 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,039 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,161 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,693 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,852 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,311 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,798 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,242 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,220 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,159 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,419 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,280 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,575 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,690 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,349 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,046 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,556 | 3.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,084 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,224 | 4.3 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,808 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nava a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nava has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nava: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nava, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,513 Americans ever recorded as Nava. The median Nava alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,450 people named Nava (1,364 women and girls, 86 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,080 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 118 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 458 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 877 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nava born?
The states with the most babies named Nava are New York, California and New Jersey, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #937 | 3.0× |
| California | 15 | #1,554 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,007 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,196 | 0.0× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,395 | 0.3× |
Where Nava is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nava is most over-represented in New York: since 1923 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nava with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,046 babies since 1880, Nava is the sixth most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 1,675 babies (5.0%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nava
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nava and names like it
- Compare Nava and NavyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNava peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nava since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Nava.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nava alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.