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Natalia vs Natalynn

American parents have registered 85,196 Natalias since 1880, against 516 Natalynns. Natalia is still ahead, with 2,028 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Natalia Natalynn

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 2014, when Natalia had 2,798 and Natalynn had 39.

Side by side

  Natalia Natalynn
Total US births 85,196516
Most in one year 3,58839
Babies in 2025 2,02818
Estimated living today 83,000510
Median age today 1510
Peak year 20062014
Best rank 94th girls3,848th girls
Rank in 2025 144th6,325th
First recorded 18901997
Girls / boys 85,144 / 52516 / 0

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Natalias alive today are over 15; half the Natalynns are over 10. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Natalia and Natalynn.