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Natosha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Natosha has been given to 3,105 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1986, with 161 recorded.

Babies named Natosha, 2010

1 in 616,000

Natosha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Natosha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Natosha means

Natosha is a given name.

The naming story behind Natosha

Wikidata records Natosha as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q108727897, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,105 girls were recorded with the name Natosha between 1962 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 161 in 1986; its best national rank was #931 in 1978.

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.

How common is Natosha?

Natosha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 296,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,971 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Natosha 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 2010 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 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Natosha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Natoshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Natosha was born before 1984 — so the typical Natosha is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,105
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (1,467).

Is Natosha 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 1986 (161)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#931
1978

Spellings of Natosha

Natosha is not the most common spelling — Natasha is, with 53.8% against Natosha's 1.7%.

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 Natosha is used

Across 1910–2025, Natosha was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 84,064 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 33,333
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Natosha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Natosha around the world

Where Natosha 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.

  • Canada
    1994–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Natosha

People whose public names include Natosha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Natosha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#931
1978
Peak year
1986
161 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
3,105
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Natosha

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

NatishaNateshaNatashaNatarshaNathashaNataushaNatalyaNathalyNataliNataleeAleishaNathanNatalynNataniaDanishaKenishaNatshaNatanyaNathaliaNathaliAlayshaPrishaNateishaNatacha

Names with a curve like Natosha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Natosha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MegganShanitaTenishaShavonneTalishaNakitaSharitaShavonShastaLatoriaTiffaneyDaniell

Sibling names for Natosha

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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