Navet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: turnip (white root of Brassica rapa)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nava/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Navet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 75K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
turnip (white root of Brassica rapa)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Navet 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.
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Navet is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In chl, a kind of prickly pear cactus, perhaps Opuntia engelmannii
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, third-person singular present active subjunctive of nāvō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of nav
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, turnip
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 231 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 208 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 199 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 185 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 179 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 172 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 167 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 156 | #10,625 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 129 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 127 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 113 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 89 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Navet mean, and where does it come from?
- turnip (white root of Brassica rapa) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Navet?
- In the etymology graph, Navette is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Navet?
- A machine transcription gives /nava/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Navet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Navet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled navet.
- How common is the name Navet?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 156 people named Navet in 2008, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Navet?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/navetThe 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, “Navet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.