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Nava

Feminine · “beautiful”

1923high 2025
#2214 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare83 girls in 2025

Nava is beautiful in Hebrew — from the Song of Songs, where the beloved says she is dark and lovely.

How old is the name Nava?

Nava first appears in US birth records in 1923 — 102 years ago. The typical Nava is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,500 people named Nava are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Nava most popular?

Nava peaked in 2025, reaching #2214 nationally. Today it ranks #2214, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Nava

Shechorah ani ve-navah — I am dark and beautiful — opens the Song of Songs, and the word is navah. Modern Israeli naming took Nava from it directly. The Spanish nava, a valley or plain, is an entirely separate word behind Navarre and Navarro. Nava appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

beautiful, pleasant

From the Hebrew navah, 'beautiful' or 'comely'. The Song of Songs opens with 'I am black and beautiful' using this word. A separate Spanish nava names a treeless plain and gives the surname Navarro. The Hebrew is documented.

How the name formed

  1. navah
  2. Nava

Related forms: נאוה · Navah · Nava

Pronouncing Nava

NAH-vah

Two syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew stresses the second, na-VAH.

Nicknames for Nava

Moderate

NaviAn affectionate stretch, used inside families rather than generally
NavA clipping, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1923–2025834208319232025

US babies named Nava per year from 1923 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#22141920s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1923
Most girls named
202583 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2214reached in 2025
Change vs 2024
+27.7%83 in 2025, from 65
Nava sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2025, with 83 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Nava in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • נאוה in Hebrew — transliteration
  • Navah in English — spelling variant
  • Nava in Spanish — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, New Jersey.

Navas among us

1,500

people named Nava are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 19,365 born in 2025 was named Nava

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Nava

#2214
Nava on the 2025 chart
#848
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Nava went to 83 girls in 2025, but Naava and Navah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 112, which makes it the 848th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,366 places above the chart.

  • Nava83
  • Naava16
  • Navah13

About 1 girl in 14,351 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 19,365 for Nava itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Karene test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Nava's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Karene climbed just as high around 1942, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Karene's path sketches the road Nava is walking now.

40%chance Nava will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Nava, aligned on its peakKarene· peak 1942not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+50 yrsKarene · #11348Nava today
Nava today is about where Karene stood in 1942 — in its own peak year. By 1957, Karene had settled around #3928.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Nava sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Nava is headed

19232030

US babies named Nava per year, 1923 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Nava should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-2% by 2030projected around #2,363 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Nava beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Nava in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Navathis name83#2214Hania83#2214Perry83#2214Bea83#2214Lyana83#2214

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That the word opens the Song of Songs is a first-rate literary anchor.
  • The beautiful meaning is transparent and undisputed.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
What to consider
  • The Spanish word of the same spelling is unrelated.
  • Hebrew and English stress it differently.
  • It reads as specifically Israeli.

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Frequently asked

How many Navas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Nava are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Nava?
Nava is the most-used spelling in US records — 83 of the 112 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Naava and Navah.
How popular is the name Nava in 2025?
Nava ranks #2214 among US girl names in 2025, with 83 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Nava?
About 1 in every 19,365 US girls born in 2025 was named Nava — 83 in all.
Will my child share the name Nava with classmates?
Nava will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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