Natividad — unisex name

What the Data Says About Natividad

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,931 babies named Natividad between 1895 and 2022, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Natividad currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 41 babies received it in a single year. Natividad is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,722 additional births since 1906.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Natividad performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 332 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Natividad shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 636 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Natividad in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Natividad in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,931 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.