Nazareth is the town in Galilee where Jesus grew up, which is why he is called the Nazarene; the Hebrew name Natzrat is usually connected to netzer, "branch" or "shoot", or to natzar, "to watch". As a girls' name it belongs to the group of biblical place names such as Bethany, Zion and Galilea that American Christian families, many of them Hispanic, have embraced. Nazareth stood at number 7909 in 2000, peaked at number 1874 in 2023 and ranks number 2530 in 2025.