Many common DTN routing protocols are replication-based, which have relatively good performance in terms of message delivery ratio but high overhead, and leave the issue of garbage collection open. In this paper, we propose Named Data Distance Routing (NDDR), a named data based DTN routing approach which makes routing decisions for named data based on topological distance information. This helps to reduce the overhead of routing. We have implemented NDDR in the ONE simulation environment and the simulation results show that the proposed routing method has better performance in terms of message delivery ratio and network overhead compared with several typical replication-based DTN routing protocols.