Nava is a Hebrew name that means "beautiful" or "pleasant", from the same root as the word navah used in the Song of Songs. It is a modern Israeli given name and is also found as a short form of names such as Naavah. In the United States Nava stays well outside the top 1000: it ranked number 6716 in 2000, hovered between numbers 2300 and 2900 over the past decade and reached number 2231 in 2025, its best position so far.