Navajo

Last seen for boys in 1891 at #963

Peak · boys
1891 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5
since 1891

Navajo over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Navajo has never cracked the top 900 here.

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First appearance
1891

The first year at least five boys were named Navajo! It came in at #963, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1891–2025, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Navajo is popular in 1891

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Navajo
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1891
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1891
  • Peaked 1891 at #963 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1892, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1891
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,238
  • Highest: 1 in 20,238 boys born in 1891 were named Navajo (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1890s
  • 100.0% of all boys named Navajo (5) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s5#963 (1891)#963

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Navajo in 1891

boys
#963
5 births · 1 in 20,238 boys

Top boys' names in 1891

  1. #1John7,680
  2. #2William6,763
  3. #3James4,516
  4. #4George3,931
  5. #5Charles3,640
  6. #6Frank2,652
  7. #7Joseph2,572
  8. #8Robert2,240
  9. #9Harry2,132
  10. #10Henry2,049
  11. #963Navajo5
More about 1891

boys

101,191 boys got a published name in 1891; 1 in 20,238 of them was named Navajo, which outranked 14.6% of the 1,127 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 37.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Navajo
  1. #841Young6
  2. #841Zebulon6
  3. #841Zollie6
  4. #963Navajo5
  5. #963Abb5
  6. #963Abbie5
  7. #963Add5

Tied with 164 names at #963; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1890
Risers
  1. ↑ 487Colonel#884 → #397
  2. ↑ 470Mahlon#994 → #524
  3. ↑ 457Hezekiah#884 → #427
  4. ↑ 430Ruby#994 → #564
  5. ↑ 397Essie#994 → #597
Fallers
  1. ↓ 574Pierce#389 → #963
  2. ↓ 505Omar#458 → #963
  3. ↓ 452Benton#511 → #963
  4. ↓ 430Ivory#533 → #963
  5. ↓ 430Pleasant#533 → #963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1891 →