Naveen
Naveen was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,071 among boys’ names; 1,847 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Naveen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naveen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Naveen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Naveen is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit नवीन (navīna).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Naveen?
#2,071 among boys’ names, 2025
Naveen rose from #2,898 in 2015 to #2,071 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.4 to 42.2 per million.
82 babies in 2013, the peak
Naveen peaked in 2013, when 82 babies were given it (56 boys, #2,295 among boys’ names). The 72 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 72 | #2,071 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,769 | 55 | #2,497 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 70 | #2,108 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 65 | #2,231 | |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,108 | 64 | #2,210 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,815 | 55 | #2,410 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,392 | 50 | #2,611 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,001 | 50 | #2,564 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,328 | 50 | #2,553 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,504 | 46 | #2,675 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,182 | 41 | #2,898 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,519 | 47 | #2,606 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,263 | 56 | #2,295 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,097 | 36 | #3,151 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,085 | 29 | #3,668 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,825 | 47 | #2,616 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,959 | 44 | #2,788 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,536 | 40 | #2,990 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,399 | 33 | #3,360 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,197 | 42 | #2,778 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,674 | 30 | #3,360 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,464 | 22 | #4,088 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 24 | #3,692 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,877 | 21 | #3,997 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 27 | #3,290 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,801 | 26 | #3,265 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,908 | 20 | #3,791 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,072 | 17 | #4,134 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,387 | 33 | #2,479 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,125 | 10 | #5,835 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 20 | #3,395 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,021 | 15 | #4,218 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 17 | #3,764 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 15 | #4,037 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,676 | 12 | #4,672 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,005 | 13 | #4,330 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,519 | 14 | #3,948 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 15 | #3,467 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 9 | #4,829 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 11 | #4,044 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 12 | #3,729 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 9 | #4,436 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 13 | #3,366 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 12 | #3,624 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,776 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 16 | #2,917 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 11 | #3,738 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 14 | #3,027 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,949 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 10 | #3,638 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,254 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 9 | #3,742 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,629 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 10 | #3,275 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Naveen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,847 Americans recorded as Naveen, 18% are girls and 82% boys. In 2025 it went to 72 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Naveen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naveen, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,847 Americans ever recorded as Naveen. The median Naveen alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 4,238 people named Naveen (434 women and girls, 3,804 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,437 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 80 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 228 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 643 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 862 |
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 Naveen born?
The states with the most babies named Naveen are Texas, Pennsylvania and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,225 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,198 | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | #2,692 | 1.1× |
Where Naveen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naveen is most over-represented in California: since 1972 it was given 1.1 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 boys’ 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 Naveen 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,172 babies since 1880, Naveen is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 89 babies (81%), again the most given.
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 Naveen
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 Naveen and names like it
- Compare Naveen and NavinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNaveen peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naveen since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Naveen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Naveen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Naveen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.