Natasha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Russian form of Natalie, meaning ‘Christmas’; occasionally found in Ireland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nətɑʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Natasha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 2nd most common given name.
- GYGuyana1 in 419(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.5K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.8K
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 Natasha 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #824 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 556 (measured from records)
- 1 in 419 (inferred from the name graph)
89,482 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Наташа in RU Russia, BY Belarus, MK North Macedonia, Nataša in RS Serbia, SI Slovenia and Natacha 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)
Russian form of Natalie, meaning ‘Christmas’; occasionally found in Ireland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Natasha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #505 | 89,482 | 1 in 3.7K | 89K | Natasha | 556 |
| RU Russia | #174 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | #368 | Наташа | 149 |
| ZA South Africa | #175 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Natasha | 145 |
| GB United Kingdom | #270 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Natasha | 343 |
| FR France | #342 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 30K | Natacha | 336 |
| BY Belarus | #80 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 389 | — | Наташа | 24 |
| RS Serbia | #36 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 304 | listed | Nataša | 80 |
| SI Slovenia | #22 | 10,022as Nataša | 1 in 210 | 10K | Nataša | 65 |
| MK North Macedonia | #18 | 6,370as Наташа | 1 in 334 | 6.4K | Наташа | 36 |
| GY Guyana | #2 | 1,792 | 1 in 419 | 1.8K | Natasha | 20 |
89,482 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Natasha 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 English, Russian: born at Christmas; from Natalie, also used independently
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A Russian form of Natalie, ‘Christmas’, occasionally found in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
Russian: pet form of Natalya, now widely adopted as an independent name in the English-speaking world and elsewhere. Like Noélle and Noél, it is 180 sometimes given to girls born on or about Christmas Day.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name from Russian, Ukrainian borrowed from Russian in the twentieth century, diminutive of Natalia and Natalya.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Natasha är en rysk form av → Natalia, nu också vanlig i den engelskspråkiga världen.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Natasha Richardsonb. 1963GBBritish actress (1963–2009)
- Natasha Gregson Wagnerb. 1970USAmerican actress
- Natasha Henstridgeb. 1974CACanadian actress
- Natasha Lyonneb. 1979USAmerican actress (born 1979)
- Natasha Rothwellb. 1980USAmerican actress and writer (born 1980)
- Natasha Polyb. 1985RURussian model
- Natasha O'Keeffeb. 1986GBBritish theatre and TV actor
- Natasha Bassettb. 1992AUAustralian actress
- Natasha Liu Bordizzob. 1994AUAustralian actress
- Sasha Obamab. 2001USnot in their usual namedaughter of former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 102 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 89K | #595 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1.8K | #11 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 745 | #2,245 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 202 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 137 | #595 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 69 | #1,827 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 60 | #980 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Natasha a male or female name?
- Natasha 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.
- What are other forms of the name Natasha?
- In the etymology graph, Natalia, Natalie and Nathalie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Natalya and Nataliya.
- What does the name Natasha mean, and where does it come from?
- Russian form of Natalie, meaning ‘Christmas’; occasionally found in Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- In which country does Natasha have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 89 thousand people named Natasha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled natasha.
- Where is Natasha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Natasha is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 419 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Natasha?
- A machine transcription gives /nətɑʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Natasha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 89,482 people named Natasha in 2020, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Natasha compared with other names?
- In the United States, Natasha is the 505th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/natashaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Natasha” — the 505th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.