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Natividad

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Birthday

Natividad has been given to 3,653 babies in the U.S. since 1895. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 41 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% girls, 47% boys all-time.

Babies named Natividad, 2022

1 in 677,000

Natividad over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Natividad over time

In 2022, Natividad went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18952022

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Natividad: meaning, origin, and history

Birthday

Spanish

What Natividad means

Natividad means “birthday”, associated with natividad.

Origin, language, and formation

Natividad is used in Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include María.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Natividad is pronounced /natibiˈdad/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,931 girls were recorded with the name Natividad between 1895 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1925; its best national rank was #1,201 in 1928.

In the United States, 1,722 boys were recorded with the name Natividad between 1906 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1928; its best national rank was #1,074 in 1928.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Natividad?

Natividad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Natividad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Natividad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Natividads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Natividad was born before 1952 — so the typical Natividad is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
993
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 17.2% of all recorded uses (332).

Is Natividad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1925 (41)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,201
1928

Where Natividad is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Natividad was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 44,825 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Natividad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Natividad is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Natividad was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 27,392 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Natividad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Natividad around the world

Where Natividad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1917–1975
    #1,322
    in 1975

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Natividad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,201
1928
Peak year
1925
41 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,931
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,074
1928
Peak year
1928
43 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
1,722
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Natividad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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