Given name & surname

Navidad

Navidad is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English and Spanish.

Original SpanishNatividad

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Navidad comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Spanish Navidad.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Navidad through the years

Babies since 1880
6
0 boys · 6 girls
Most popular year
1999
6 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0123420002025Highest share 19990.0
Navidad in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1999–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 159 as a first name in 2020; 561 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Navidad’s family of names

In Spanish usage, Navidad as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Natividad. In Greek usage, Navidad as a surname is a transliteration of Ναβιδάδ.

Walk Navidad’s family in the name graph

NavidadΝαβιδάδNatividad

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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