Natalya
Natalya was given to 74 girls in 2025, #2,427 among girls’ names; 7,171 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,090 Americans named Natalya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Natalya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Natalya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Natalya is “a female given name from Russian.”
Also “a transliteration of the Russian female given name Ната́лья (Natálʹja).”
Transliteration of Russian Ната́лья (Natálʹja). Doublet of Natalie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Natalya?
#2,427 among girls’ names, 2025
Natalya fell from #1,130 in 2015 to #2,427 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.13 to 0.05 per 1,000.
380 babies in 2009, the peak
Natalya peaked in 2009, when 380 girls were given it, #748 among girls’ names. The 74 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,427 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,909 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 94 | #2,072 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,951 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,727 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 146 | #1,473 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 143 | #1,522 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 153 | #1,446 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 215 | #1,153 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 225 | #1,130 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 226 | #1,130 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 263 | #1,003 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 258 | #978 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 271 | #945 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 320 | #828 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 357 | #768 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 380 | #748 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 324 | #860 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 296 | #917 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 327 | #825 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 258 | #956 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 237 | #996 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 248 | #948 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 218 | #1,005 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 218 | #987 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 171 | #1,171 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 166 | #1,171 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 153 | #1,209 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,462 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 118 | #1,403 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,944 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,243 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,253 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,809 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,099 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,059 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,012 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,349 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,071 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,454 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,479 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,117 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,306 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,476 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,214 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,732 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,708 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,349 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,764 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,862 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,286 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,416 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,179 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,158 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,122 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,821 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Natalya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Natalya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Natalya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Natalya, and how old are they?
7,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,171 Americans ever recorded as Natalya. The median Natalya alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 11,801 people named Natalya (11,788 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,503 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 141 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,110 |
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 Natalya born?
The states with the most babies named Natalya are California, New York and Texas, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,305 | 1.1× |
| New York | 11 | #1,287 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,195 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,394 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,555 | 0.8× |
Where Natalya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Natalya is most over-represented in Florida: since 1970 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 Natalya 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 504,159 babies since 1880, Natalya is the fifth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 74 of their 5,252 babies (1.4%), the fourth 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 Natalya
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 Natalya and names like it
- Compare Natalya and NatalieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNatalya peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Natalya since 1910.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Natalya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Natalya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Natalya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.