Navy

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Navy: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Navy: Recorded every year since 2016, its highest recorded position is #444, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
18times a registrar ranked it
10years from first to last
#444highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#4763
2017	#2502
2018	#3985
2019	#2286
2020	#1556
2021	#901
2022	#876
2023	#496
2024	#539
2025	#444

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2016 to 2025.

In 2024: #539 among girls in England and Wales, #638 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2016–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2016
First recorded at #4763 among girls in England and Wales in 2016 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2016–2025
Highest recorded position: #444 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 2016–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #444 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Navy appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 2016, and has registered 370 births with the name.

Navy across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Navy's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4763 (2016)	#444 (2025)	#444 (2025)	10 of 10	370 (2016–2025)	90 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#2076 (2020)	#664 (2024)	#716 (2025)	6 of 6	199 (2020–2025)	56 (2024)

Navy appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2016 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #444 in England and Wales in 2025.

Navy's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#444	90	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#716	49	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#539	72	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#664	56	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#496	80	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#710	48	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#876	40	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1268	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#901	39	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1595	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2076	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2016 and 2025, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #444, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 90 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Navraj · #1330, 30y
Navreet · #3285, 11y
Navya · #1229, 21y
Nawaal · #1836, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aimee-Rose · #444, 12y
Rosaria · #443, 11y
Emilia-Rose · #446, 15y
Dona · #447, 13y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Emilia-Rose · #446, 15y
Ivy-Mae · #447, 15y
Aviana · #440, 15y
Melanija · #440, 10y

Navy was ranked #444 in England and Wales · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Navy and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Navy without appearing here.

Navy moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1556 and #5493.
Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1556 and #4535.

Moved the opposite way to Navy

Abigail Compare
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Navy went from #4763 to #444 while Abigail went from #58 to #171.
Aimee Compare
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Navy went from #4763 to #444 while Aimee went from #400 to #1809.
Alex Compare
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Navy went from #4763 to #444 while Alex went from #1416 to #2605.
Alexandra Compare
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Navy went from #4763 to #444 while Alexandra went from #113 to #231.

Moved the same way as Navy

Ada Compare
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Navy went from #4763 to #444 and Ada from #164 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Navy went from #4763 to #444 and Alma from #529 to #211.
Arabella Compare
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Navy went from #4763 to #444 and Arabella from #94 to #22.
Aria Compare
Between 2016 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Navy went from #4763 to #444 and Aria from #67 to #34.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2016 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #444 in England and Wales in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Navy

Navy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Navy across 2 official records

Navy appears in

Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

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Navy and the names beside it

Navy moved ahead of

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Navy at a glance

Navy across 2 official records

Navy appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Names published alongside Navy

Navy and the names beside it

Navy moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Navy

Moved the same way as Navy