Meaning not yet researched.
Nautica: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #876 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #876 in 1999; #9,286 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nautica in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,286 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #876.
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Nautica: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #876 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 246 (1999).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Nautica, making it the 9,286th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,487 places from #14,773 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 6 girls named Nautica in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #876, reached in 1999. That year also had the most girls given the name: 246. For comparison, it was #6,910 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nautica in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 15 babies. In all, 2,295 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,026 babies named Nautica.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 163 US girls were named Nautica; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Natika, Nautika and Natica are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Natika (293), Nautika (226), Natica (39), Nautyca (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 Nautica in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,286 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,773 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,891 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,975 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,895 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,553 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,571 | 5 | #13,539 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,413 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,481 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,745 | — | — |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,910 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,653 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,373 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,088 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,368 | — | — |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,707 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 2002 | 141 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 2001 | 166 | #1,223 | 7 | #8,950 |
| 2000 | 169 | #1,186 | 8 | #7,960 |
| 1999 | 246 | #876 | 16 | #4,481 |
| 1998 | 217 | #949 | 7 | #8,184 |
| 1997 | 206 | #962 | 6 | #8,935 |
| 1996 | 136 | #1,278 | 6 | #8,674 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,394 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,210 | — | — |
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).