Meaning not yet researched.
Nature: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 67 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,602 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 84% of babies named Nature in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,602 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nature: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 67 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,602 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 67 (2025).
In 2025, 67 US girls were named Nature, making it the 2,602nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 504 places from #3,106 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 52 girls named Nature in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,602, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 67. For comparison, it was #11,583 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Nature, making it the 6,698th most common boys’ name of the year, up 431 places from #7,129 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 12 boys named Nature in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,975, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 27. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nature in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 10 babies. In all, 849 US babies have been given the name, 75% of them girls and 25% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 434 babies named Nature.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 400 US girls were named Nature; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,989 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nature ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #669 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nayture are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nayture (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nature in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 7 | #669 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,240 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,319 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,602 | 13 | #6,698 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,106 | 12 | #7,129 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,077 | 15 | #6,135 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,262 | 24 | #4,397 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,986 | 27 | #3,975 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,323 | 17 | #5,398 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,513 | 17 | #5,491 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,949 | 11 | #7,468 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,762 | 10 | #7,970 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,904 | 7 | #10,407 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,583 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,979 | 6 | #11,702 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,484 | 6 | #11,736 |
| 2012 | — | — | 6 | #11,818 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,401 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,033 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,783 | — | — |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #13,993 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,371 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,683 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,943 | 6 | #11,061 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,716 | 5 | #12,639 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,341 | 7 | #9,318 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,878 | 9 | #7,456 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,222 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,715 | 7 | #8,843 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,276 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,011 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,505 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,966 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,866 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,025 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,891 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,196 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,791 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,248 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,718 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,098 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,376 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,452 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).