Naven
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naven is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Lancs.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
168 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Lancs.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naven 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 168 | 1 in 2M | 146 | Naven | 13 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Naven | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 205 | — | 4 |
| DM Dominica | — | — | 1 | — | — |
168 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Naven 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 Dutch, plural of naaf
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 205 | #20,969 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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 Naven mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Lancs. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Naven?
- A machine transcription gives /nəvən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Naven a male or female name?
- Naven is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Naven have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 168 people named Naven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naven.
- Where is Naven most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Naven is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Naven?
- In the United States, the national register counted 168 people named Naven in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Naven?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/navenThe 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, “Naven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.