Meaning not yet researched.
Nazareth: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,874 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,874 in 2023; #2,530 in 2025. About 60% of babies named Nazareth in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,530 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,874.
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Nazareth: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,874 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 107 (2023).
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Nazareth, making it the 2,530th most common girls’ name of the year, down 504 places from #2,026 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 97 girls named Nazareth in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,874, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 107. For comparison, it was #4,124 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 47 US boys were named Nazareth, making it the 2,744th most common boys’ name of the year, down 8 places from #2,736 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 48 boys named Nazareth in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,574, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 50. For comparison, it was #3,008 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nazareth in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 6 babies. In all, 2,402 US babies have been given the name, 50% of them girls and 50% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 788 babies named Nazareth.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 719 US girls were named Nazareth; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 107. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nazareth ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #972 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nazaret are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nazaret (321).
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 Nazareth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #972 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,878 | #2,159 |
| California | 8 | #2,430 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,530 | 47 | #2,744 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,026 | 48 | #2,736 |
| 2023 | 107 | #1,874 | 49 | #2,682 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,596 | 36 | #3,322 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,777 | 47 | #2,719 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,490 | 50 | #2,574 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,624 | 43 | #2,888 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,955 | 46 | #2,695 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,894 | 43 | #2,829 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,730 | 41 | #2,919 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,124 | 39 | #3,008 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,901 | 35 | #3,196 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,985 | 36 | #3,106 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,208 | 33 | #3,343 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,680 | 25 | #4,073 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,548 | 23 | #4,330 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,965 | 45 | #2,736 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,088 | 29 | #3,708 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,057 | 32 | #3,426 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,406 | 35 | #3,134 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,557 | 37 | #2,884 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,430 | 33 | #3,055 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,200 | 19 | #4,379 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,716 | 24 | #3,635 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,625 | 33 | #2,847 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,909 | 28 | #3,129 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,371 | 13 | #5,239 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,995 | 15 | #4,576 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,582 | 12 | #5,177 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,641 | 16 | #4,133 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,226 | 12 | #5,022 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,234 | 10 | #5,758 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,899 | 8 | #6,647 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,319 | 7 | #7,179 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,119 | 8 | #6,346 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,874 | 9 | #5,681 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,372 | 8 | #6,047 |
| 1988 | — | — | 9 | #5,086 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,622 | 7 | #5,905 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,185 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,440 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,979 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,477 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,962 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,956 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,295 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,064 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,537 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,410 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,446 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,308 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,371 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,618 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,701 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,132 |
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).