Natalia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Natalia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Variant of Natal; related to Christmas nativity.
- MDMoldova1 in 39(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 120
- RURussia≈1 in 37as Наталья
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Natalia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #7 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 607 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800,000 named Наталья, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Наталья in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Наталія in UA Ukraine, Natalie in US United States and Nathalie in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Natal; related to Christmas nativity.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Natalia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #4 | ≈3,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 37 | #8 | Наталья | 273 |
| UA Ukraine | #3 | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 44 | listed | Наталія | 135 |
| CN China | — | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Наталья | 51 |
| FR France | #14 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 205 | 383K | Nathalie | 416 |
| US United States | #244 | 324,013as Natalie | 1 in 1K | 324K | Natalie | 607 |
| PL Poland | #64 | 320,219 | 1 in 120 | 320K | Natalia | 224 |
| BY Belarus | #4 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 40 | 14 | Наталья | 71 |
| MD Moldova | #19 | 85,179 | 1 in 39 | 85K | Natal'Ja | 50 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Natalia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Lat. natalis 'birth, Christmas'; saint name.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Romanian, < lat. Natalis (dies) 1. fiica lui loan Movila, 1680, n. redat §i In forma Nedelea, din necunoasterea sensului (RI XIII 48). 2. - actual; ipoc. Natalifa, dar ipocoristice ca : Lit/a, -oiu, ce par corecte lui Candrea, din Natalia, nu se explica decit prin Hip < Ilie, nume de mare frecventA.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Swedish, Natalia (m.fl. former) är ett från början latinskt namn, bildat till latinets dies natalis ’(Kristi) födelsedag’, dvs. juldagen. I den rikssvenska almanackan 29 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Du latin natalis (« jour de naissance »), forme latine de Nathalie; fête liée à la Nativité.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, from Latin natalis 'birth, Christmas'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nathalie Sarrauteb. 1900FRnot in their usual nameFrench lawyer and writer (1900–1999)
- Natalia Makarovab. 1940RUSoviet and American ballet dancer
- Natasha Korolevab. 1973RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer
- Natalia Oreirob. 1977UYUruguayan actress, singer, host, and model
- Natalia Barbub. 1979MDMoldovan singer
- Radveda Poklonskayab. 1980UAnot in their usual nameRussian lawyer, politician and diplomat
- Natalia Vodianovab. 1982RURussian model
- Natalia Tenab. 1984GBBritish-Spanish actress
- Natalia Dyerb. 1995USAmerican actress (born 1997)
- Iga Świątekb. 2001PLnot in their usual namePolish tennis player (born 2001)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 114 sources across 60 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 320K | #15 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 320K | #15 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 88K | #600 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 85K | #5 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.1K | #1,759 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2K | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 892 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 168 | #600 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #17,501 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Natalia?
- In the etymology graph, Natalie, Nathalie and Natasha are forms of the same name in other languages; Natalka is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Natalia mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Natal; related to Christmas nativity. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Natalia a male or female name?
- Natalia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Natalia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 million people named Наталья in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Natalia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Natalia is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 39 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Natalia?
- In Poland, the national register counted 320,219 people named Natalia in 2026, about 1 in 120 residents.
- How common is Natalia compared with other names?
- In Russia, Natalia is the 4th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Natalia” — the 4th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.