Navy
#327 for girls in 2025, 935 births · #1,554 for boys in 2025, 110 births
Given to girls 88.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 935 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,913since 1985
Navy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #327 | 935 | #1,554 | 110 |
| 2024 | #338 | 934 | #1,709 | 97 |
| 2023 | #362 | 846 | #1,608 | 108 |
| 2022 | #479 | 660 | #2,000 | 76 |
| 2021 | #454 | 688 | #1,982 | 75 |
| 2020 | #659 | 437 | #2,094 | 67 |
| 2019 | #813 | 336 | #2,364 | 57 |
| 2018 | #1,269 | 182 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2017 | #1,353 | 171 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #1,472 | 156 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #1,793 | 116 | #3,085 | 37 |
| 2014 | #2,081 | 93 | #4,263 | 23 |
| 2013 | #2,326 | 79 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #3,169 | 52 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | — | |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | — | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | — | |
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| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
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| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | — | |
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| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Navy! It came in at #7,563, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1990, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Navy
- 11 spots since 2024 (#338 → #327)
- 332 spots since 2020 (#659 → #327)
- 1,466 spots since 2015 (#1,793 → #327)
- Biggest jump: 456 spots in 2019 (#1,269 → #813)
- Biggest drop: 25 spots in 2022 (#454 → #479)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2025 at #327 (935 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,719 girls born in 2025 were named Navy (0.06%)
- 76.1% of all girls named Navy (4,500) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #7,563 (1985) | #9,238 |
| 1990s | 49 | #7,430 (1991) | #10,105 |
| 2000s | 117 | #6,956 (2001) | #9,231 |
| 2010s | 1,234 | #813 (2019) | #2,537 |
| 2020s | 4,500 | #327 (2025) | #437 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Navy in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 10,096 of them was named Navy, which outranked 92.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,348Colbie172
- #1,348Kaley172
- #1,348Stacy172
- #1,353Navy171
- #1,353Aleigha171
- #1,353Ariadna171
- #1,353Delia171
- #1,360Aila170
- #1,360Belinda170
- #1,360Dior170
Tied with 6 names at #1,353; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 52,884 of them was named Navy, which outranked 77.2% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,193Vedansh36
- #3,193Whitman36
- #3,193Zian36
- #3,249Navy35
- #3,249Abubakr35
- #3,249Affan35
- #3,249Amaree35
- #3,312Aasir34
- #3,312Able34
- #3,312Agam34
Tied with 62 names at #3,249; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.