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Navdeep

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

New, fresh + lamp, light

Navdeep has been given to 272 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% boys, 46% girls all-time.

Babies named Navdeep, 2018

1 in 502,000

Navdeep over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Navdeep over time

In 2018, Navdeep went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19842018

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Navdeep: meaning, origin, and history

New, fresh + lamp, light

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Navdeep means

Navdeep means “new, fresh + lamp, light”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Navdeep is used in Indian (Sikh).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 147 boys were recorded with the name Navdeep between 1984 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1994; its best national rank was #5,020 in 1994.

In the United States, 125 girls were recorded with the name Navdeep between 1984 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1997; its best national rank was #7,908 in 1984.

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 Navdeep?

Navdeep had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 259,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Navdeep 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Navdeep. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Navdeeps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Navdeep was born before 1997 — so the typical Navdeep is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
147
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Choose a decade

1990s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Navdeep 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (12)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,020
1994

Spellings of Navdeep

Navdeep is not the most common spelling — Naveen is, with 38.6% against Navdeep's 3.8%.

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 Navdeep is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Navdeep was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Navdeep has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Navdeep is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Navdeep was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 814,834 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Navdeep has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Navdeep around the world

Where Navdeep 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,065
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1996–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Navdeep by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,020
1994
Peak year
1994
12 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
147
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,908
1984
Peak year
1997
11 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
125
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Navdeep

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

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Sibling names for Navdeep

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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