Meaning not yet researched.
Natasha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 202 in 2025. Its best rank was #70 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #70 in 1986; #1,148 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Natasha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,148 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #70.
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Natasha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 202 girls in 2025. Peak: #70 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 4,131 (1987).
In 2025, 202 US girls were named Natasha, making it the 1,148th most common girls’ name of the year, down 215 places from #933 in 2024. That is 83 fewer than the 285 girls named Natasha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #70, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,131, in 1987. For comparison, it was #669 in 2015 and #5,874 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Natasha in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1934 with 6 babies. In all, 97,937 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 38,394 babies named Natasha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,042 US girls were named Natasha; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 390. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,957 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Natasha ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #856 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Natalie (379,831 babies since 1880), Natalia (85,196 babies since 1880), Tasha (35,634 babies since 1880) and Latasha (30,325 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Natascha, Natesha and Nathasha are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Nat and Tasha.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Natascha (916), Natesha (363), Nathasha (330), Natausha (290), Natasa (79), Natasja (77), Nateisha (69), Nataisha (54), Nataysha (43), Natusha (30), Natassha (20), Nateesha (15), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 19 | #856 | #501 |
| California | 34 | #873 | #587 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #888 | #509 |
| Texas | 31 | #942 | #656 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,006 | #450 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,035 | #1,062 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,178 | #652 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,345 | #775 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,392 | #1,411 |
| New York | 10 | #1,392 | #704 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 202 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 2024 | 285 | #933 | — | — |
| 2023 | 261 | #984 | — | — |
| 2022 | 337 | #834 | — | — |
| 2021 | 297 | #908 | — | — |
| 2020 | 272 | #945 | — | — |
| 2019 | 305 | #885 | — | — |
| 2018 | 337 | #808 | — | — |
| 2017 | 356 | #775 | — | — |
| 2016 | 390 | #730 | — | — |
| 2015 | 428 | #669 | — | — |
| 2014 | 444 | #645 | — | — |
| 2013 | 494 | #582 | — | — |
| 2012 | 565 | #535 | — | — |
| 2011 | 606 | #491 | — | — |
| 2010 | 675 | #456 | — | — |
| 2009 | 786 | #402 | — | — |
| 2008 | 776 | #415 | — | — |
| 2007 | 848 | #387 | — | — |
| 2006 | 919 | #356 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,029 | #312 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,060 | #304 | 7 | #9,638 |
| 2003 | 970 | #321 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,025 | #305 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,080 | #291 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,144 | #281 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,244 | #255 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,522 | #205 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,594 | #189 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,845 | #170 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,104 | #154 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,382 | #133 | — | — |
| 1993 | 2,279 | #140 | 6 | #8,360 |
| 1992 | 2,813 | #120 | 8 | #6,507 |
| 1991 | 2,924 | #113 | 7 | #7,041 |
| 1990 | 3,270 | #105 | 8 | #6,237 |
| 1989 | 3,668 | #87 | 22 | #2,858 |
| 1988 | 4,039 | #73 | 21 | #2,742 |
| 1987 | 4,131 | #73 | 16 | #3,162 |
| 1986 | 3,872 | #70 | 27 | #2,141 |
| 1985 | 3,553 | #79 | 11 | #3,964 |
| 1984 | 3,709 | #77 | 15 | #3,053 |
| 1983 | 3,955 | #71 | 24 | #2,189 |
| 1982 | 4,128 | #71 | 16 | #2,931 |
| 1981 | 3,730 | #85 | 14 | #3,166 |
| 1980 | 3,428 | #89 | 15 | #3,056 |
| 1979 | 2,796 | #110 | 14 | #3,115 |
| 1978 | 2,555 | #114 | 8 | #4,436 |
| 1977 | 2,503 | #116 | 7 | #4,950 |
| 1976 | 2,095 | #131 | 7 | #4,769 |
| 1975 | 1,844 | #145 | 9 | #3,844 |
| 1974 | 2,005 | #141 | 5 | #5,754 |
| 1973 | 1,784 | #155 | 10 | #3,371 |
| 1972 | 1,729 | #170 | 8 | #3,856 |
| 1971 | 1,303 | #229 | — | — |
| 1970 | 717 | #350 | — | — |
| 1969 | 510 | #429 | — | — |
| 1968 | 319 | #538 | — | — |
| 1967 | 228 | #632 | — | — |
| 1966 | 135 | #862 | — | — |
| 1965 | 120 | #931 | — | — |
| 1964 | 103 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1963 | 103 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1962 | 91 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1961 | 100 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1960 | 91 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1959 | 82 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1958 | 76 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1957 | 55 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,031 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,874 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,810 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,480 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,161 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,855 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,806 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,676 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,160 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).