Natividad

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: latin Nativitas, 'birth'; refers to Mary's nativity

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Natividad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 48th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.3K
  • ESSpain1 in 1.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈54,000 people, est.

Sources
255 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

latin Nativitas, 'birth'; refers to Mary's nativity.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Natividad is read(measured from records)

Natividad is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish83%

    latin Nativitas, 'birth'; refers to Mary's nativity.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

    from the personal name Natividad ‘nativity’, ‘Christmas’, from Latin nativitas ‘birth’, genitive nativitatis, usually bestowed with reference to the Marian epithet Maria de la Natividad. Compare Natal.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    nativity or birth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English8.4%

    A barangay of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo, Philippines.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Spanish; nativity, the birth of Jesus

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Natividad 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.

Where Natividad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#456≈54,000 est.≈1 in 2K—Natividad94
ES Spain#25525,9281 in 1.9K28KNatividad149
PE Peru#212≈24,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Natividad55
AR Argentina#435≈11,000 est.≈1 in 4.1K48Natividad59
US United States—8,9391 in 37K6.9KNatividad255
DO Dominican Republic#48≈8,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Natividad26
PY Paraguay#212≈3,100 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Natividad20

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Natividad is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nativídad

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Natividad is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Religious name meaning ‘nativity’, referring to the festival of the

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1850190019502000Natividad Yarza Planas, b. 1872Natividad Almeda López, b. 1892Nati Mistral, b. 1928Nati Cañada, b. 1942Naty Abascal, b. 1943María Natividad López de Munain Alzola, b. 1960Natividad Navalón, b. 1961Isabel Díaz Ayuso, b. 1978Natividad Llanquileo, b. 1984

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 54 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Natividad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.2K#7,885
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.1K#7,782
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.2K#9,242
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—429#9,035
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—429#9,020
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—48—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Natividad mean, and where does it come from?
latin Nativitas, 'birth'; refers to Mary's nativity. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
Is Natividad a male or female name?
Natividad 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 Natividad have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Natividad in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled natividad.
How common is the name Natividad?
In Spain, the national register counted 25,928 people named Natividad, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
How common is Natividad compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Natividad is the 456th most common given name of 486,299 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, “Natividad” — the 456th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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