Nazareth — #2715 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nazareth

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,151 babies named Nazareth between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nazareth currently holds the #2715 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 50 babies received it in a single year. Nazareth is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,132 additional births since 1987.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nazareth performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 364 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Nazareth shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 112 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nazareth in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nazareth 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 1,151 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.