1. A device ( 12 ) for entering names into a navigation system ( 12 ), having a storage unit to store names of at least one category of geographic information, having an input unit ( 32 ) for selecting a name, having a display unit ( 44 ) to support the entry, and having a control unit which causes a selectable name ( 60 ) to be displayed as a suggestion on the display unit ( 44 ) as a function of a specified sorting criterion for the stored names of a category and as a function of earlier entries for the selection of the name to be entered, wherein the selection probability of the names is used as a sorting criterion in the control unit, and at least one statistically collected information item or an information item recorded by measurement concerning the local characteristics of the area designated by the name is used as a measure for the selection probability.