Nazareth
About 2,402 American babies have been named Nazareth since 1920, most of them around 2023. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,514th. About 2,300 Nazareths are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Nazareth
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Nazareth crossed from boys to girls in 2016, and has stayed there for 10 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 69% girls, and in 2025 it was 60%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 29 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,402
- Estimated living today
- 2,300
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 1,865th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,514th
- First recorded
- 1920
- Girls / boys
- 1,204 / 1,198
How old the living Nazareths are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,402 babies given the name since 1920, about 2,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 1 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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 Nazareth is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nazareth is most concentrated in Texas (5.1×), California (4.3×), Florida (1.0×), New York (0.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular girls’ names the year Nazareth peaked:
Nazareth elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Nazareth | 15 | 766th |
| France girls | Nazareth | 15 | 6,584th |
| England and Wales boys | Nazareth | 7 | 3,996th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Nazareth lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,208 women called Nazareth were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaén | Nazareth | 67 | 0.215 | 378 |
| Cádiz | Nazareth | 105 | 0.164 | 440 |
| Cáceres | Nazareth | 23 | 0.117 | 669 |
| Huelva | Nazareth | 28 | 0.103 | 718 |
| Toledo | Nazareth | 38 | 0.101 | 744 |
| León | Nazareth | 23 | 0.100 | 772 |
Listed in 40 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 12 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Nazareth 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.