Natalie
Natalie was given to 2,736 girls in 2025, #89 among girls’ names; 379,831 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 353,000 Americans named Natalie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Natalie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Natalie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Natalie is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “birthday [of Christ], Christmas” (diēs)).
From the French form of the Late Latin saint’s name Natalia, from nātālis (diēs) (“birthday [of Christ], Christmas”). Doublet of Natalya.
/ˈnætəli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Natalie?
#89 among girls’ names, 2025
Natalie fell from #27 in 2015 to #89 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.6 to 1.7 per 1,000.
10,970 babies in 2006, the peak
Natalie peaked in 2006, when 10,970 babies were given it (10,951 girls, #17 among girls’ names). The 2,736 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,736 | #89 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 3,127 | #73 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 3,429 | #63 | 2.1 |
| 2022 | 3,947 | #55 | 2.4 |
| 2021 | 4,060 | #56 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 4,291 | #51 | 2.7 |
| 2019 | 4,810 | #41 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 5,127 | #39 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 5,554 | #35 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 6,191 | #31 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,510 | #27 | 3.6 |
| 2014 | 7,115 | #23 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 7,492 | #21 | 4.3 |
| 2012 | 7,908 | #17 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8,646 | #14 | 4.9 |
| 2010 | 8,789 | #14 | 4.9 |
| 2009 | 9,421 | #16 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 10,201 | #13 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 10,443 | #17 | 5.4 |
| 2006 | 10,951 | #17 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10,742 | #18 | 5.8 |
| 2004 | 9,689 | #19 | 5.3 |
| 2003 | 9,151 | #23 | 5.0 |
| 2002 | 8,352 | #30 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 8,049 | #32 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 8,096 | #34 | 4.5 |
| 1999 | 8,079 | #34 | 4.6 |
| 1998 | 7,549 | #40 | 4.3 |
| 1997 | 6,539 | #48 | 3.8 |
| 1996 | 6,693 | #46 | 3.8 |
| 1995 | 6,424 | #51 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 5,837 | #56 | 3.3 |
| 1993 | 5,484 | #62 | 3.0 |
| 1992 | 5,583 | #61 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 5,557 | #64 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 5,637 | #63 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 5,630 | #62 | 3.1 |
| 1988 | 5,483 | #63 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 5,331 | #56 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 5,707 | #52 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5,535 | #58 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5,555 | #55 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5,723 | #52 | 3.4 |
| 1982 | 5,961 | #51 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 4,858 | #60 | 2.9 |
| 1980 | 4,645 | #65 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 4,445 | #68 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 4,165 | #66 | 2.7 |
| 1977 | 4,043 | #69 | 2.6 |
| 1976 | 3,499 | #80 | 2.4 |
| 1975 | 2,637 | #110 | 1.8 |
| 1974 | 2,466 | #119 | 1.7 |
| 1973 | 2,059 | #140 | 1.4 |
| 1972 | 2,024 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 1971 | 2,093 | #154 | 1.3 |
| 1970 | 2,370 | #142 | 1.4 |
| 1969 | 2,152 | #153 | 1.3 |
| 1968 | 1,886 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 2,034 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 2,309 | #150 | 1.4 |
| 1965 | 1,940 | #180 | 1.1 |
| 1964 | 2,127 | #177 | 1.1 |
| 1963 | 1,993 | #190 | 1.0 |
| 1962 | 1,949 | #191 | 1.0 |
| 1961 | 1,625 | #213 | 0.81 |
| 1960 | 1,550 | #216 | 0.77 |
| 1959 | 1,232 | #247 | 0.61 |
| 1958 | 1,283 | #238 | 0.64 |
| 1957 | 1,055 | #268 | 0.52 |
| 1956 | 612 | #353 | 0.30 |
| 1955 | 404 | #446 | 0.21 |
| 1954 | 401 | #438 | 0.21 |
| 1953 | 374 | #445 | 0.20 |
| 1952 | 402 | #428 | 0.22 |
| 1951 | 414 | #407 | 0.23 |
| 1950 | 390 | #404 | 0.23 |
| 1949 | 413 | #389 | 0.24 |
| 1948 | 450 | #373 | 0.27 |
| 1947 | 434 | #382 | 0.24 |
| 1946 | 389 | #385 | 0.25 |
| 1945 | 366 | #365 | 0.28 |
| 1944 | 380 | #355 | 0.29 |
| 1943 | 467 | #325 | 0.33 |
| 1942 | 468 | #320 | 0.35 |
| 1941 | 368 | #342 | 0.30 |
| 1940 | 394 | #319 | 0.34 |
| 1939 | 410 | #305 | 0.37 |
| 1938 | 402 | #311 | 0.36 |
| 1937 | 391 | #314 | 0.37 |
| 1936 | 445 | #289 | 0.43 |
| 1935 | 457 | #286 | 0.44 |
| 1934 | 530 | #269 | 0.51 |
| 1933 | 517 | #269 | 0.51 |
| 1932 | 579 | #260 | 0.54 |
| 1931 | 599 | #247 | 0.56 |
| 1930 | 624 | #248 | 0.55 |
| 1929 | 634 | #248 | 0.57 |
| 1928 | 687 | #238 | 0.60 |
| 1927 | 659 | #257 | 0.55 |
| 1926 | 669 | #255 | 0.56 |
| 1925 | 708 | #249 | 0.58 |
| 1924 | 713 | #249 | 0.57 |
| 1923 | 694 | #247 | 0.58 |
| 1922 | 678 | #254 | 0.56 |
| 1921 | 729 | #247 | 0.59 |
| 1920 | 548 | #278 | 0.46 |
| 1919 | 520 | #279 | 0.46 |
| 1918 | 465 | #297 | 0.40 |
| 1917 | 484 | #280 | 0.45 |
| 1916 | 428 | #288 | 0.41 |
| 1915 | 429 | #283 | 0.44 |
| 1914 | 395 | #261 | 0.52 |
| 1913 | 258 | #296 | 0.41 |
| 1912 | 222 | #306 | 0.40 |
| 1911 | 190 | #284 | 0.45 |
| 1910 | 136 | #337 | 0.34 |
| 1909 | 120 | #333 | 0.35 |
| 1908 | 86 | #389 | 0.26 |
| 1907 | 65 | #446 | 0.20 |
| 1906 | 80 | #384 | 0.27 |
| 1905 | 67 | #418 | 0.23 |
| 1904 | 53 | #449 | 0.19 |
| 1903 | 53 | #440 | 0.20 |
| 1902 | 39 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1901 | 28 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1900 | 67 | #412 | 0.22 |
| 1899 | 38 | #477 | 0.16 |
| 1898 | 40 | #489 | 0.15 |
| 1897 | 31 | #535 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 35 | #502 | 0.15 |
| 1895 | 39 | #469 | 0.17 |
| 1894 | 43 | #427 | 0.19 |
| 1893 | 34 | #460 | 0.16 |
| 1892 | 36 | #459 | 0.17 |
| 1891 | 23 | #553 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 34 | #441 | 0.18 |
| 1889 | 25 | #507 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 26 | #499 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 16 | #582 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 16 | #566 | 0.11 |
| 1885 | 17 | #534 | 0.13 |
| 1884 | 11 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 9 | #677 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 15 | #487 | 0.14 |
| 1881 | 12 | #497 | 0.13 |
| 1880 | 5 | #908 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Natalie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Natalie has been given almost only to girls: 769 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Natalie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Natalie, and how old are they?
353,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 379,831 Americans ever recorded as Natalie. The median Natalie alive today is 26 years old; half are between 16 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 324,013 people named Natalie (323,601 women and girls, 412 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 337,091 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2,320 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 41,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 88,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 141,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 64,000 |
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 Natalie born?
The states with the most babies named Natalie are Texas, California and New York, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 272 | #109 | 1.0× |
| California | 266 | #112 | 1.3× |
| New York | 156 | #90 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 140 | #63 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 119 | #149 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 109 | #90 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 99 | #100 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 97 | #61 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 96 | #71 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 93 | #91 | 1.1× |
Where Natalie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Natalie is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Natalie 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 524,213 babies since 1880, Natalie is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,736 of their 5,397 babies (51%), again the most given.
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 Natalie
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 Natalie and names like it
- Compare Natalie and NataliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNatalie peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Natalie since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Natalie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Natalie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Natalie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.