In 2025, 2,028 US girls were named Natalia, making it the 144th most common girls’ name of the year, down 39 places from #105 in 2024. That is 481 fewer than the 2,509 girls named Natalia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #79, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,588, in 2006. For comparison, it was #118 in 2015 and #1,545 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Natalia in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 7 babies. In all, 85,196 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 27,394 babies named Natalia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 27,354 US girls were named Natalia; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 3,207. In 2025 that was about 1 in 793 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Natalia ranked highest in California in 2025, at #45 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Natalie (379,831 babies since 1880), Natasha (97,937 babies since 1880), Nathalie (20,673 babies since 1880) and Nataly (15,468 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Natania, Nathania and Nathalya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Nat and Talia.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Croatian, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Italian, Late Latin, Polish, Spanish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.