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Nautica

Nautica is a girl's name that peaked in 1999, when it was the 874th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 2,300 Nauticas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Nautica boys named Nautica

By the numbers

Total US births
2,295
Estimated living today
2,300
Median age today
25
Peak year
1999
Best rank
874th
Rank in 2025
8,860th
First recorded
1992
Girls / boys
2,240 / 55

How old the living Nauticas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,295 babies given the name since 1992, about 2,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Nautica is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nautica is most concentrated in Ohio (4.3×), North Carolina (4.0×), South Carolina (2.7×), Georgia (2.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1999

The most popular girls’ names the year Nautica peaked:

All the names of 1999

Related names

Nautica against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.