Nautica
#9,283 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nautica has been given to 2,295 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #9,283 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 246 recorded.
Babies named Nautica, 2025
1 in 301,000
Nautica over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nautica?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,283
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nautica sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nautica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nauticas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nautica was born before 2000 — so the typical Nautica is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 44.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,240
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (991).
Is Nautica 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
- +5,485
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,734
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,376
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.61×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 4.5%
- Peak was 1999 (246)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Spellings of Nautica
Nautica is the most-used spelling, taking 50.7% of the 4,414 babies given a near-identical spelling.
Where Nautica is used
Across 1910–2025, Nautica was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 96,220 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in 25,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 3Georgia1 in 50,000
- 4Missouri1 in 50,000
- 5South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 6Alabama1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in 100,000
- 8Florida1 in 100,000
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. Nautica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nautica by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Nautica
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Nautica
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nautica, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Nautica
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.