# Natalia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/natalia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “birthday (of the lord)” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Nat, Natasha |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 85,196 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 52 / 85,144 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7,213, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Latin natale (“birthday (of the Lord)”), referring to birth on Christmas Day, name of an early martyr.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,801 | 108 |
| 2012 | 2,597 | 119 |
| 2013 | 2,634 | 121 |
| 2014 | 2,798 | 111 |
| 2015 | 2,701 | 118 |
| 2016 | 2,828 | 111 |
| 2017 | 2,614 | 119 |
| 2018 | 2,628 | 114 |
| 2019 | 2,736 | 103 |
| 2020 | 3,076 | 85 |
| 2021 | 3,207 | 79 |
| 2022 | 3,003 | 80 |
| 2023 | 2,725 | 96 |
| 2024 | 2,509 | 105 |
| 2025 | 2,028 | 144 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 6 | 3,529 |
| 1981 | 7 | 5,310 |
| 1992 | 6 | 8,137 |
| 2002 | 6 | 10,263 |
| 2004 | 9 | 7,983 |
| 2005 | 8 | 8,850 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,660 |
| 2011 | 5 | 13,725 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 417 | 133 |
| 2012 | 384 | 149 |
| 2013 | 359 | 146 |
| 2014 | 365 | 149 |
| 2015 | 346 | 157 |
| 2016 | 341 | 164 |
| 2017 | 321 | 170 |
| 2018 | 327 | 164 |
| 2019 | 256 | 192 |
| 2020 | 262 | 188 |
| 2021 | 220 | 226 |
| 2022 | 202 | 232 |
| 2023 | 153 | 289 |
| 2024 | 143 | 301 |
| 2025 | 114 | 374 |

## People named Natalia

- Natalia Dyer, American actress (born 1997)
- Natalia Tena, British-Spanish actress
- Natalia Verbeke, Argentine-Spanish actress
- Natalia Ponce de León, Colombian campaigner
- Natalia Avelon, German actress
- Natalia Valeeva, archer
- Natalia Wörner, German actress (born 1967)
- Natalia Reyes, Colombian actress
- Natália Pereira, Brazilian volleyball player
- Natalia Duco, Chilean shot putter
- Natalia Cigliuti, American actress
- Natália Falavigna, Brazilian taekwondo practitioner

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.