Navjot
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Navjot has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1991, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% girls, 48% boys all-time.
Babies named Navjot, 2008
1 in 655,000
Navjot over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Navjot over time
In 2011, Navjot went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Navjot?
Navjot had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 655,000
- 6 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 315,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 454,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Navjot sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Navjot. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Navjots were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Navjot was born before 1996 — so the typical Navjot is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 64.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 108
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 64.8% of all recorded uses (70).
Is Navjot 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1991 (12)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.0% average annual change
Where Navjot is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Navjot was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 842,778 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Navjot has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Navjot is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Navjot was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,809,208 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 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. Navjot has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Navjot around the world
Where Navjot 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 & Wales1997–2012#4,838in 2012
- Canada1991–2006#1,691in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Navjot by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Navjot
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Navjot
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.