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Nausicaa

Girls' name

From Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα; literal meaning unconfirmed

Nausicaa has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2022, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Nausicaa, 2022

1 in 308,000

Nausicaa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nausicaa: meaning, origin, and history

From Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα; literal meaning unconfirmed

Ancient Greek

What Nausicaa means

Nausicaa is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Nausicaa, from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Nausicaa (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nausicaa is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Nausicaa comes through Latin Nausicaa and Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Nausicaa is pronounced /nɔːˈsɪkiə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 29 girls were recorded with the name Nausicaa between 2019 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2022; its best national rank was #9,481 in 2022.

How common is Nausicaa?

Nausicaa 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 308,000
11 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 149,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
213,349 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nausicaa 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 213,349 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nausicaa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nausicaas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nausicaa was born before 2021 — so the typical Nausicaa is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
75.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
29
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 75.9% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Nausicaa 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 2022 (11)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,481
2022

Spellings of Nausicaa

Nausicaa is not the most common spelling — Nautica is, with 98.7% against Nausicaa's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Nausicaa around the world

Where Nausicaa 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
    1975–2025
    #3,345
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021

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

Nausicaa 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
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Best rank ever
#9,481
2022
Peak year
2022
11 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
29
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nausicaa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nausicaa

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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