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Natalia vs Natan

American parents have registered 85,196 Natalias since 1880, against 1,623 Natans. Natalia is still ahead, with 2,028 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Natalia Natan

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 1968, when Natalia had 62 and Natan had 5.

Side by side

  Natalia Natan
Total US births 85,1961,623
Most in one year 3,58865
Babies in 2025 2,02861
Estimated living today 83,0001,600
Median age today 1514
Peak year 20062017
Best rank 94th girls2,109th boys
Rank in 2025 144th2,284th
First recorded 18901968
Girls / boys 85,144 / 520 / 1,623

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Natalia Natan
Poland 157,14123,320
England and Wales 7,2131,479
Italy 3,1401,164
France 2,2452,030
Norway 2,100272
Belgium 550712
Ireland 875223
Switzerland 471356
Scotland 545117
Northern Ireland 15443

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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