Nautika
Nautika was last recorded in 2017, when 7 babies were given it; 226 Americans have been recorded with it between 1995 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nautika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nautika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,702, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1998, the peak
Nautika peaked in 1998, when 25 girls were given it, #4,456 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | #13,702 | 4.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,671 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,938 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,553 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,400 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,701 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,295 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,208 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,664 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,789 | 13.9 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 22 | #5,262 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,364 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,456 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,554 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,455 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,218 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nautika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nautika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nautika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nautika, and how old are they?
An estimated 223 Americans named Nautika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 22 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 185 people named Nautika (181 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 224 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Nautika?
Nautika is a less common spelling of Nautica: SSA has recorded 226 Nautika and 2,295 Nautica since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,814 babies since 1880, Nautika is the third most given (8.0% 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 Nautika
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 Nautika and names like it
- Compare Nautika and NauticaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNautika peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nautika since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Nautika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nautika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.