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Navya

#2,147 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Navya has been given to 2,111 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #2,147 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 127 recorded.

Babies named Navya, 2025

1 in 38,100

Navya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Navya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Navya means

Navya is a given name.

The naming story behind Navya

Wikidata records Navya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q123378681, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,111 girls were recorded with the name Navya between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 127 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,692 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,435 in 2020 to #2,147 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,859 in 2015 to #2,147 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 Navya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 38,100
87 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,147
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,414 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Navya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,414 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Navya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Navyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Navya was born before 2015 — so the typical Navya is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,111
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (1,067).

Is Navya 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
−259
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+288
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−288
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.5%
Peak was 2017 (127)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,692
2017

Spellings of Navya

Navya is not the most common spelling — Ava is, with 32.9% against Navya's 0.20%.

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 Navya is used

Across 2016–2025, Navya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 14,381 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).

130 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,333
  2. 2California1 in 9,091
  3. 3Washington1 in 9,091
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 12,500
  5. 5Virginia1 in 14,286
  6. 6Texas1 in 16,667
  7. 7Illinois1 in 20,000
  8. 8New York1 in 20,000

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.

Navya around the world

Where Navya 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
    2004–2025
    #1,229
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #798
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #856
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Navya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,147
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 288
Best rank ever
#1,692
2017
Peak year
2017
127 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,111
Count in 2025
87

Names similar to Navya

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

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Names with a curve like Navya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Navya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Navya

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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