Natasha
Natasha reached its high-water mark in 1987 at number 73, and has been recorded 97,937 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,144th. About 95,000 Natashas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Natasha boys named Natasha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 97,937
- Estimated living today
- 95,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1987
- Best rank
- 73rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,144th
- First recorded
- 1934
- Girls / boys
- 97,652 / 285
How old the living Natashas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 97,937 babies given the name since 1934, about 95,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 7,800 of them are children and 410 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 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 Russian, Ukrainian
Borrowed from Russian Ната́ша, an informal pet form of Ната́лья, cognate to Natalie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Natashas
- Natasha Richardson (1963–2009)British actress
- Natasha Henstridge (born 1974)Canadian actress
- Natasha Korolyova (born 1973)Russian singer
- Natasha Lyonne (born 1979)American actress
- Natasha Zvereva (born 1971)Belarusian tennis player
- Natasha St-Pier (born 1981)Canadian singer
- Natasha Liu Bordizzo (born 1994)Australian actress
- Natasha Poly (born 1985)Russian model
People named Natasha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Natasha is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Natasha is most concentrated in Hawaii (2.6×), Alaska (2.5×), New Mexico (1.8×), Florida (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1987
The most popular girls’ names the year Natasha peaked:
Natasha elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Natasha | 15,601 | 33rd |
| New Zealand girls | Natasha | 5,533 | 8th |
| Scotland girls | Natasha | 3,775 | 31st |
| Ireland girls | Natasha | 2,630 | 76th |
| Italy girls | Natasha | 1,146 | — |
| France girls | Natasha | 830 | 955th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Natasha | 505 | 34th |
| Poland girls | Natasha | 312 birth registrations | 199th |
| Norway girls | Natasha | 275 | 334th |
| Belgium girls | Natasha | 227 | 475th |
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.
Natasha: rank by region
In 2010, Natasha was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Natasha | 523 | 5 |
In 2019, Natasha was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Natasha | 10 | 1 |
In 2023, Natasha was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Natasha | 318 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, 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.
Natasha by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Natasha 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Natasha | 148 | 322 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Natasha lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,095 women called Natasha 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Natasha | 9 | 0.114 | 702 |
| Cádiz | Natasha | 67 | 0.105 | 586 |
| Málaga | Natasha | 89 | 0.097 | 739 |
| Balears, Illes | Natasha | 61 | 0.097 | 793 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Natasha | 46 | 0.083 | 1,082 |
| Tarragona | Natasha | 29 | 0.066 | 1,097 |
Listed in 38 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 14 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
Natasha 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.