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Nadav

#5,768 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Nadab

Nadav has been given to 771 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #5,768 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Nadav, 2025

1 in 207,000

Nadav over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nadav: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Nadab

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nadav means

Nadav is a form of Nadab.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nadab.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 771 boys were recorded with the name Nadav between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,492 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,778 in 2020 to #5,768 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,653 in 2015 to #5,768 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nadav?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,768
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nadav sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nadav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nadavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nadav was born before 2009 — so the typical Nadav is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
771
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (251).

Is Nadav rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+936
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,990
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,115
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2016 (32)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,492
2003

Spellings of Nadav

Nadav is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 91.7% against Nadav's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nadav is used

Across 1910–2025, Nadav was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 126,570 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nadav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nadav around the world

Where Nadav ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    2021–2025
    #3,944
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nadav by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,768
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,990
Best rank ever
#3,492
2003
Peak year
2016
32 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
771
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Nadav

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NadirNadimNaderNadeemNadiaNadalNadenNadineNadarAadavNadivNadariusVedavDav

Sibling names for Nadav

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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