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Natalija

#14,415 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Natālija

Natalija has been given to 241 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #14,415 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Natalija, 2025

1 in 553,000

Natalija over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Natalija: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Natālija

Latin

What Natalija means

Natalija is a variant of Natālija.

Origin, language, and formation

Natalija is used in Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Natālija, Наде́жда, Ната́лия and Natalie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Natalija is pronounced [nɐ²ˈtɑːlʲɪjɛ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 241 girls were recorded with the name Natalija between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2009; its best national rank was #8,334 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #13,083 in 2020 to #14,415 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,851 in 2015 to #14,415 in 2025.

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 Natalija?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,415
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Natalija sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Natalija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Natalijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Natalija was born before 2011 — so the typical Natalija is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
241
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Natalija 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
+2,552
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,332
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,436
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 2009 (15)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,334
2009

Spellings of Natalija

Natalija is not the most common spelling — Natalie is, with 71.5% against Natalija's 0.05%.

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.

Natalija around the world

Where Natalija 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    1970–2016
    #7,837
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1995–2016
    #3,204
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Natalija by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,415
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,332
Best rank ever
#8,334
2009
Peak year
2009
15 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
241
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Natalija

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

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Sibling names for Natalija

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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