| Yaffa | Naava | |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Beautiful | Beautiful, pleasant |
| Origin | hebrew | hebrew |
| Gender | Girl | Girl |
| Pronunciation | YAH-fuh | NAH-vah |
| Syllables | 2 | 2 |
| First appeared | 0 | 0 |
| Peak year | 2025 (23) | 2020 (21) |
| In 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Trend | Steady | Rising |
Source: US Social Security Administration.
| Decade | Yaffa | Naava |
|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 78 | 90 |
| 2010s | 105 | 132 |
| 2000s | 108 | 46 |
| 1990s | 56 | 0 |
| 1980s | 63 | 0 |
| 1970s | 48 | 0 |
| 1950s | 5 | 0 |
From Hebrew יָפֶה/יָפָה (yafeh/yafah) 'beautiful, lovely'. Yaffa (also Yafit) is a modern Hebrew beauty name; the same root names the city Jaffa ('the beautiful').
From Hebrew נָאוָה (na'avah) 'beautiful, comely, pleasant', as in the Song of Songs ('I am dark and beautiful'). The sense covers both 'beautiful' and 'pleasant/fitting'.
Yaffa and Naava are given to a similar number of US babies today.
Yaffa means Beautiful (hebrew origin), while Naava means Beautiful, pleasant (hebrew origin).
In US records, Yaffa first appears in 0 and Naava in 0, so Yaffa has the longer recorded history.