Navia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from either of two places named Navia, in Galicia and Asturies
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Navia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 6.4K
- COColombia≈1 in 6.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from either of two places named Navia, in Galicia and Asturies.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Navia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #692 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 3 | Navia | 103 |
| BO Bolivia | #132 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Navia | 47 |
| CL Chile | #543 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 1 | Navia | 67 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Navia | 23 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,358 | 1 in 33K | 1.4K | Navia | 44 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 461 | 1 in 7.3K | 461 | — | 23 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Navia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Navia (river)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sergio Otoniel Contreras Naviab. 1926CLChilean priest (1926–2019)
- Rafael Nieto Naviab. 1938COColombian ambassador
- Eddy Naviab. 1949BOBolivian composer
- Reinaldo Naviab. 1978CLChilean footballer
- María Fernanda Naviab. 1979COColombian broadcaster and model
- Cecilia Naviab. 1980COColombian actor
- Miguel Naviab. 1980ESSpanish illustrator
- Oscar Ruíz Naviab. 1982COColombian film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Melissa Naviab. 1984USColombian-US film actress
- Nico NaviaCOcinematographer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 461 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Navia mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from either of two places named Navia, in Galicia and Asturies. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Navia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Navia in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled navia.
- How common is the name Navia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,358 people named Navia, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Navia compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Navia is the 692nd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naviaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Navia” — the 692nd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.