Natalee
Natalee was given to 63 girls in 2025, #2,743 among girls’ names; 10,311 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,100 Americans named Natalee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Natalee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Natalee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Natalee is “a female given name.”
Modern variant of Natalie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Natalee?
#2,743 among girls’ names, 2025
Natalee fell from #969 in 2015 to #2,743 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.04 per 1,000.
603 babies in 2006, the peak
Natalee peaked in 2006, when 603 girls were given it, #507 among girls’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,743 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 83 | #2,259 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 90 | #2,135 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,681 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 130 | #1,619 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 154 | #1,420 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,459 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 199 | #1,198 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 231 | #1,097 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 237 | #1,091 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 280 | #969 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 335 | #828 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 413 | #686 | 0.24 |
| 2012 | 439 | #648 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 515 | #564 | 0.29 |
| 2010 | 541 | #542 | 0.30 |
| 2009 | 576 | #526 | 0.31 |
| 2008 | 563 | #548 | 0.30 |
| 2007 | 481 | #620 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 603 | #507 | 0.32 |
| 2005 | 590 | #508 | 0.32 |
| 2004 | 265 | #916 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 260 | #916 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 195 | #1,092 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 197 | #1,081 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 200 | #1,044 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 175 | #1,127 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 126 | #1,369 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 118 | #1,414 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 116 | #1,427 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 111 | #1,449 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 125 | #1,341 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,596 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 71 | #1,957 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,970 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,868 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 86 | #1,620 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,612 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,577 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,684 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,035 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 51 | #2,011 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,742 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,845 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,691 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,797 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,073 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,292 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,571 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,899 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,493 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,203 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,335 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,566 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,753 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,528 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,384 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,718 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,499 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,550 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,931 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,723 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,409 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,610 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,369 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,735 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,673 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,086 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,276 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,404 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,220 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,002 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,586 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,806 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,922 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Natalee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Natalee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Natalee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Natalee, and how old are they?
10,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 10,311 Americans ever recorded as Natalee. The median Natalee alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 8,560 people named Natalee (8,547 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,525 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 74 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 497 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,790 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,480 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Natalee born?
The states with the most babies named Natalee are Texas, Florida and Michigan, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,843 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,077 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,358 | 0.9× |
Where Natalee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Natalee is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1919 it was given 1.2 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 girls’ 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 Natalee 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 503,966 babies since 1880, Natalee is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 5,238 babies (1.2%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Natalee
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 Natalee and names like it
- Compare Natalee and NatalieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNatalee peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Natalee since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Natalee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Natalee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.