Nautica comes from the Modern American tradition, meaning Pertaining to ships or sailors.
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How popular is Nautica?
1999peak year
The name Nautica reached its peak in 1999, with 246 registrations (ranked #876). It had only entered records 7 years earlier, in 1992. Since the peak, the name has eased to well outside the top 1,000 (around #8012) today, averaging about 18 new babies per year. Nautica has been declining in recent years. Across all years on record, approximately 2,284 American babies have carried this name.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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