Meaning not yet researched.
Navy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 935 in 2025. Its best rank was #327 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 89% of babies named Navy in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#327 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Navy: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 935 girls in 2025. Peak: #327 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 935 (2025).
In 2025, 935 US girls were named Navy, making it the 327th most common girls’ name of the year, up 11 places from #338 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 934 girls named Navy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #327, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 935. For comparison, it was #1,810 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 110 US boys were named Navy, making it the 1,558th most common boys’ name of the year, up 159 places from #1,717 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 97 boys named Navy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,558, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 110. For comparison, it was #3,134 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Navy in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 8 babies. In all, 6,717 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,033 babies named Navy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,345 US girls were named Navy; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 935. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,719 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Navy ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #41 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Navya (2,111 babies since 1880), Navi (2,031 babies since 1880) and Navie (603 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Navia, Naveya and Navey are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Navia (629), Naveya (229), Navey (194), Naavya (183), Navea (176), Navee (166), Nayvi (138), Naviya (74), Naveh (67), Navii (60), Naiovy (27), Navvy (13), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Navy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 74 | #41 | #132 |
| Iowa | 26 | #124 | — |
| North Dakota | 8 | #132 | — |
| West Virginia | 12 | #133 | — |
| Idaho | 14 | #156 | — |
| Montana | 7 | #161 | — |
| Tennessee | 46 | #168 | — |
| Arkansas | 16 | #194 | — |
| Delaware | 5 | #212 | — |
| South Dakota | 6 | #225 | — |
| Kentucky | 20 | #229 | — |
| Kansas | 14 | #231 | — |
| Ohio | 47 | #239 | — |
| Indiana | 30 | #240 | — |
| Michigan | 38 | #242 | — |
| Louisiana | 17 | #267 | — |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #272 | — |
| Nebraska | 8 | #284 | — |
| Missouri | 21 | #295 | #817 |
| North Carolina | 37 | #303 | — |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #308 | — |
| Alabama | 16 | #313 | — |
| Arizona | 23 | #313 | #1,057 |
| Minnesota | 18 | #324 | — |
| Colorado | 19 | #334 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #346 | — |
| Nevada | 8 | #366 | — |
| Georgia | 30 | #374 | — |
| South Carolina | 13 | #395 | — |
| Illinois | 27 | #398 | — |
| Maryland | 13 | #416 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #420 | — |
| Texas | 72 | #466 | #3,658 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #498 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #556 | — |
| Washington | 12 | #568 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #602 | — |
| New Jersey | 13 | #606 | — |
| New York | 27 | #621 | — |
| California | 50 | #634 | #2,275 |
| Florida | 26 | #671 | — |
| Virginia | 10 | #744 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 935 | #327 | 110 | #1,558 |
| 2024 | 934 | #338 | 97 | #1,717 |
| 2023 | 846 | #363 | 108 | #1,619 |
| 2022 | 660 | #479 | 76 | #2,016 |
| 2021 | 688 | #454 | 75 | #1,993 |
| 2020 | 437 | #660 | 67 | #2,109 |
| 2019 | 336 | #815 | 57 | #2,384 |
| 2018 | 182 | #1,270 | 26 | #4,075 |
| 2017 | 171 | #1,359 | 35 | #3,293 |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,478 | 29 | #3,745 |
| 2015 | 116 | #1,810 | 37 | #3,134 |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,089 | 23 | #4,352 |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,339 | 14 | #6,146 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,018 | 5 | #13,731 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,325 | 5 | #13,663 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,764 | 10 | #8,120 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,589 | — | — |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,995 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,734 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,560 | 8 | #8,854 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,472 | 6 | #10,917 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,343 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,880 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,223 | 10 | #6,785 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,485 | 6 | #9,944 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,285 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,624 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,507 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,028 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,271 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,798 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,201 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,065 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).