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Natale

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Birthday of the Lord

Natale has been given to 1,523 babies in the U.S. since 1906. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 39 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% boys, 24% girls all-time.

Babies named Natale, 2014

1 in 741,000

Natale over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Natale over time

In 2014, Natale went to 50% girls and 50% boys.

19062014

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Natale: meaning, origin, and history

Birthday of the Lord

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Natale means

Natale means “birthday of the Lord”, associated with Dominī].

Origin, language, and formation

Natale is used in Italian.

Natale comes through Latin nātālis, Latin natalis and Southern Altai nātālis 􂀿diēs Dominī􂁀.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Natalia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Natale is pronounced /naˈta.le/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,152 boys were recorded with the name Natale between 1906 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,032 in 1915.

In the United States, 371 girls were recorded with the name Natale between 1962 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1984; its best national rank was #4,110 in 1984.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Natale?

Natale had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Natale sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Natale. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Natales were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Natale was born before 1935 — so the typical Natale is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
398
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (271).

Is Natale rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (39)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,032
1915

Spellings of Natale

Natale is not the most common spelling — Nate is, with 40.9% against Natale's 10.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Natale is used

Across 1910–2025, Natale was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 81,933 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Natale has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Natale around the world

Where Natale ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1908–2025
    #3,694
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1953–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Natale by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,032
1915
Peak year
1915
39 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
1,152
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,110
1984
Peak year
1984
19 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
371
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Natale

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Natale

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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