Natalie
Natalie is a girl's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 17th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 89th. About 353,000 Natalies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Natalie boys named Natalie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 379,831
- Estimated living today
- 353,000
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 17th
- Rank in 2025
- 89th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 379,062 / 769
How old the living Natalies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 379,831 babies given the name since 1880, about 353,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 109,000 of them are children and 10,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From the French form of the Latin saint's name Natalia, from nātālis (diēs) (“birthday [of Christ], Christmas”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Natalies
- Natalie Portman (born 1981)Israeli-American actress
- Natalie Wood (1938–1981)American actress
- Natalie Dormer (born 1982)English actress
- Natalie Cole (1950–2015)American singer
- Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris
- Natalie Geisenberger (born 1988)German luger
- Natalie Glebova (born 1981)Russian-Canadian beauty queen
- Natalie Kuckenburg (born 1984)model
People named Natalie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Natalie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Natalie is most concentrated in Nevada (1.9×), Utah (1.8×), California (1.6×), Arizona (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular girls’ names the year Natalie peaked:
Natalie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Natalie | 10,946 | 42nd |
| Scotland girls | Natalie | 6,722 | 12th |
| New Zealand girls | Natalie | 4,112 | 16th |
| Norway girls | Natalie | 2,197 | 68th |
| Ireland girls | Natalie | 2,065 | 89th |
| Austria girls | Natalie | 1,782 | 38th |
| France girls | Natalie | 1,340 | 314th |
| Italy girls | Natalie | 1,191 | — |
| Poland girls | Natalie +1 spelling | 895 birth registrations | 144th |
| Switzerland girls | Natalie | 604 | 114th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Natalie | 298 | 66th |
| Belgium girls | Natalie | 105 | 472nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Natalie: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Natalie | 540 | 0.043% | 88th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Natalie | 30 | 0.007% | 359th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Natalie | 34 | 0.052% | 66th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Natalie is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.07% of children were given it – 37 of them.
Natalie: rank by region
In 2005, Natalie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Natalie | 778 | 5 |
In 2025, Natalie was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Natalie | 326 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Natalie by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 38 | 234th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Natalie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Natalie | 2,318 | 3,257 |
| Finland girls | Natalie | 520 | 1,079 |
| the Netherlands boys | Natalie | — | 16 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Natalie lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 761 women called Natalie were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Natalie | 60 | 0.096 | 803 |
| Palmas, Las | Natalie | 48 | 0.081 | 1,174 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Natalie | 40 | 0.072 | 1,186 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Natalie | 70 | 0.068 | 1,066 |
| Málaga | Natalie | 53 | 0.058 | 1,054 |
| Barcelona | Natalie | 133 | 0.044 | 1,311 |
Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Natalie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.