Navon
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- na-VOHN
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Navon is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “wise, discerning”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Navon mean?
Hebrew: Hebrew word
“wise, discerning”
Yitzhak Navon, fifth president of Israel, bore it as a surname.
Is Navon a girl's or a boy's name?
Navon is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Navon in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Navon, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 21 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years.
Half of all the boys named Navon in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 108 boys in the US were given Navon or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,411, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
Navon in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,846 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,729 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,461 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,196 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,737 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,758 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,658 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,628 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,530 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,928 |
| 2000 | 11 | #5,913 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,612 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,400 |
Names like Navon
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Deacon, Kayden, Brayden, Cannon, Finnegan, Aiden, Declan, Ronan, Finn, Raiden, Keegan, Kenan
Other spellings of Navon
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from 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, “Navon: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/navon, updated 20 October 2026.