Girl · Latin
Natalia
Say it: nuh-TAH-lee-uh
Meaning
From natalis 'of birth, birthday', especially dies natalis Domini 'Christmas Day'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Spread by the cult of St. Natalia of Nicomedia, especially in Russia, and widely popular in 20th-century Europe and the Americas.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 71,653 babies given this name since 1890
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 523 girls
- 3,059 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
Early ChristianLatinRussianPolishSpanishItalianFrenchGermanEnglishUkrainianCzechSlovakSerbianCroatianBulgarian
The family of the name
Other spellings: Natalie, Nathalie, Natalya, Наталья, Natasha
| French | Nathalie |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Natalia |
| Italian | Natalia |
| Portuguese | Natália |
| German | Natalie |
| Polish | Natalia |
| Russian | Natalya |
| Hungarian | Natália |
Famous bearers
- Natalia of Nicomedia, wife of the martyr Adrian
- Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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