Natale
Natale was last recorded in 2014, when 10 babies were given it; 1,523 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Natale by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Natale mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Natale is “a male given name, feminine equivalent Natalia” Its etymology gives the sense “birthday of the Lord” (Dominī]).
From Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birthday of the Lord”).
/naˈta.le/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Natale?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,431, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1915, the peak
Natale peaked in 1915, when 39 boys were given it, #1,032 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,437 | 5 | #13,431 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,471 | 5 | #13,453 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,751 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,749 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,019 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,326 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,581 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,389 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,250 | 5 | #13,410 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,365 | 5 | #12,754 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #18,001 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,177 | 8 | #8,072 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,737 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,267 | 5 | #11,071 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,001 | 8 | #7,323 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,396 | 7 | #7,860 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,628 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,543 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,917 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,251 | 8 | #6,639 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,922 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,951 | 12 | #4,670 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,690 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,034 | 5 | #8,821 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,307 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,489 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,444 | 5 | #7,470 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,926 | 7 | #5,565 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,110 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,549 | 5 | #6,972 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,698 | 6 | #6,153 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,885 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,443 | 12 | #3,549 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,784 | 10 | #3,985 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,436 | 10 | #3,770 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,125 | 6 | #5,628 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,891 | 8 | #4,286 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,700 | 6 | #5,252 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,633 | 8 | #4,076 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,178 | 7 | #4,363 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,796 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,120 | 6 | #4,748 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,568 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 7 | #3,823 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 8 | #3,287 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 11 | #2,570 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,444 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,295 | 15 | #2,142 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,904 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,316 | 5 | #4,441 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,258 | 8 | #3,226 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 14 | #2,303 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 8 | #3,250 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 16 | #2,081 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 9 | #2,966 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 10 | #2,770 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 18 | #1,925 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 13 | #2,282 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 11 | #2,555 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 9 | #2,848 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 11 | #2,462 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 11 | #2,458 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 14 | #2,087 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 11 | #2,417 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 14 | #2,088 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 16 | #1,967 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 11 | #2,362 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 8 | #2,699 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 8 | #2,789 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 11 | #2,363 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 12 | #2,227 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 15 | #1,873 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 11 | #2,275 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 11 | #2,254 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 15 | #1,873 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 16 | #1,807 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 13 | #2,033 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 13 | #2,099 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 17 | #1,768 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 23 | #1,441 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 13 | #2,164 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 16 | #1,902 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 27 | #1,415 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 16 | #1,978 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 25 | #1,507 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 20 | #1,781 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 31 | #1,318 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 37 | #1,179 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 29 | #1,402 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 28 | #1,409 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 25 | #1,534 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 35 | #1,247 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 25 | #1,535 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 19 | #1,791 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 39 | #1,105 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 27 | #1,355 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 22 | #1,533 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 39 | #1,032 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 24 | #1,213 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 10 | #1,901 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,795 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 6 | #1,674 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 6 | #1,317 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 5 | #1,366 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Natale a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,523 Americans recorded as Natale, 24% are girls and 76% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Natale: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Natale, and how old are they?
An estimated 757 Americans named Natale and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 32 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,443 people named Natale (681 women and girls, 762 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 832 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Natale born?
The states with the most babies named Natale are New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 307 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 27 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Natale is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Natale is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Natale with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,726 babies since 1880, Natale is the most given (88% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Natale
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Natale and names like it
- Compare Natale and NatalioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sNatale peaked in 1915.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Natale since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Natale: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Natale.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Natale alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.