# Navy (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/navy/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Navea, Naveah, Navee, Naveigh, Navey, Navi, Navie |
| US babies named this | 6,717 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 804 / 5,913 (88% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 569, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 5,018 |
| 2012 | 52 | 3,198 |
| 2013 | 79 | 2,339 |
| 2014 | 93 | 2,089 |
| 2015 | 116 | 1,810 |
| 2016 | 156 | 1,478 |
| 2017 | 171 | 1,359 |
| 2018 | 182 | 1,270 |
| 2019 | 336 | 815 |
| 2020 | 437 | 660 |
| 2021 | 688 | 454 |
| 2022 | 660 | 479 |
| 2023 | 846 | 363 |
| 2024 | 934 | 338 |
| 2025 | 935 | 327 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 13,663 |
| 2011 | 5 | 13,731 |
| 2013 | 14 | 6,146 |
| 2014 | 23 | 4,352 |
| 2015 | 37 | 3,134 |
| 2016 | 29 | 3,745 |
| 2017 | 35 | 3,293 |
| 2018 | 26 | 4,075 |
| 2019 | 57 | 2,384 |
| 2020 | 67 | 2,109 |
| 2021 | 75 | 1,993 |
| 2022 | 76 | 2,016 |
| 2023 | 108 | 1,619 |
| 2024 | 97 | 1,717 |
| 2025 | 110 | 1,558 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,502 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2019 | 11 | 2,286 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,556 |
| 2021 | 39 | 901 |
| 2022 | 40 | 876 |
| 2023 | 80 | 496 |
| 2024 | 72 | 539 |
| 2025 | 90 | 444 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | 2,076 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,595 |
| 2022 | 21 | 1,268 |
| 2023 | 48 | 710 |
| 2024 | 56 | 664 |
| 2025 | 49 | 716 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.