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Nataley vs Natalia

American parents have registered 85,196 Natalias since 1880, against 619 Nataleys. Natalia is still ahead, with 2,028 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nataley against Natalia, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nataley Natalia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Natalia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1890 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Nataley had 8 and Natalia had 480.

Side by side

  Nataley Natalia
Total US births 61985,196
Most in one year 413,588
Babies in 2025 under 52,028
Estimated living today 61083,000
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20122006
Best rank 3,782nd girls94th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked144th
First recorded 19861890
Girls / boys 619 / 085,144 / 52

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nataley and Natalia.