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Natallie vs Natasha

American parents have registered 97,937 Natashas since 1880, against 548 Natallies. Natasha is still ahead, with 202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Natallie against Natasha, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Natallie Natasha

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

Natasha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1934 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Natallie had 28 and Natasha had 606.

Side by side

  Natallie Natasha
Total US births 54897,937
Most in one year 344,147
Babies in 2025 under 5202
Estimated living today 54095,000
Median age today 1938
Peak year 20091987
Best rank 4,370th girls73rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,144th
First recorded 19791934
Girls / boys 548 / 097,652 / 285

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 Natashas alive today are over 38; half the Natallies are over 19. That is 19 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Natallie Natasha
England and Wales 315,601
Scotland 63,775

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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