Navi

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 86 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
86
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#3705
6 babies

Navi by the numbers

In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Navi. In the US, 86 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 74 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Navi

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Navi. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Navabeautiful, lovely58 in the US (2017)
  • Namiwave38 in the US (2017)
  • Nariwoman or female27 in the US (2017)
  • Nanibeautiful17 in the US (2017)
  • Novinew; form of novus17 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Navy90 in England and Wales (2025)

Sounds like Navi

Names that are said the same way as Navi, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Navie28 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Nayvie14 in the US (2017)
  • Nayvi5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Navi

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