Nautica
Nautica was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,283 among girls’ names; 2,295 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,270 Americans named Nautica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nautica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nautica?
#9,283 among girls’ names, 2025
Nautica fell from #6,907 in 2015 to #9,283 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 6.8 per million.
262 babies in 1999, the peak
Nautica peaked in 1999, when 262 babies were given it (246 girls, #875 among girls’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,283 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,768 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,886 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,970 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,890 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,549 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,567 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,409 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,479 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,743 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,907 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,127 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,649 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,369 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,085 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,366 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,602 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,361 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,706 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,663 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,196 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,147 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,783 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 141 | #1,373 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 166 | #1,222 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 169 | #1,184 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 246 | #875 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 217 | #948 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 206 | #961 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 136 | #1,276 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,755 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,368 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,389 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,204 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nautica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,295 Americans recorded as Nautica, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nautica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nautica, and how old are they?
2,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,295 Americans ever recorded as Nautica. The median Nautica alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,714 people named Nautica (1,644 women and girls, 70 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,208 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 322 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 231 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nautica born?
The states with the most babies named Nautica are Ohio, North Carolina and California, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 268 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| North Carolina | 156 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| California | 130 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 115 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 98 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 89 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 77 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 54 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 54 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 49 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Nautica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nautica is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1992 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nautica with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,814 babies since 1880, Nautica is the most given (82% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nautica
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nautica and names like it
- Compare Nautica and NatikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNautica peaked in 1999.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nautica since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Nautica.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nautica alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.