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Navid

Gender
Boy
Origin
Persian
UK rank, 2025
#3,747 for boys
US rank, 2025
#8,239 for boys

Navid is a boys' name of Persian origin, meaning “good news”. In 2025 it ranked 3,747th for boys in the UK (5 babies) and 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).

What does Navid mean?

Persian

“good news”

A transliteration of the Persian male given name نوید (navid, novid).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Navid a girl's or a boy's name?

Navid is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the UK and 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Navid in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,747among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 60,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 67% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the UK were named Navid, making it the 3,747th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,108th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 10 boys.

Half of all the boys named Navid in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2016. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 10 in 20092025
Navid in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#3,747
20240–
20230–
20220–
20215#3,614
20206#3,108
20195#3,597
20184#4,169
20176#3,191
20166#3,241
20153#4,955
20143#4,829
20134#4,008
20125#3,572
20119#2,311
20104#4,026
200910#2,084
20089#2,212
20075#3,231
20066#2,645
20055#2,885
20045#2,691
20035#2,574
20025#2,358
20010–
20004#2,612
19993#3,043
19981#3,884
19970–
19963#2,949

How popular is Navid in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,239among boys
Babies in 2025
9about 1 in 190,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 41% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Navid, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. Its busiest year was 1990, with 36 boys. It first appears in the records in 1977.

Half of all the boys named Navid in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1977Busiest: 36 in 19902025
Navid in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20259#8,239
202412#6,827
202311#7,284
20228#8,983
202113#6,330
202016#5,447
201916#5,551
201822#4,472
201720#4,742
201623#4,326
201523#4,293
201424#4,135
201317#5,167
201219#4,857
201121#4,507
201016#5,475
200914#6,091
20089#8,319
200712#6,618
200612#6,455
200512#6,220
200412#6,132
200310#6,708
200223#3,665
200119#4,115
200018#4,198
199921#3,586
199816#4,193
199723#3,155
199615#4,179
199519#3,426
199419#3,463
199320#3,240
199224#2,828
199126#2,600
199036#2,044
198915#3,612
198817#3,074
198722#2,464
198628#2,055
198519#2,596
198412#3,457
198316#2,786
19829#4,232
198114#3,028
198013#3,255
197915#2,896
19786#5,056
19775#5,843

Names like Navid

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Navid: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/navid, updated 20 October 2026.