Natasha
Natasha was given to 202 girls in 2025, #1,148 among girls’ names; 97,937 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 94,600 Americans named Natasha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 31 and 45.
Natasha dropped 215 places in 2025, the #10 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Natasha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Natasha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Natasha is “a female given name from Russian, Ukrainian borrowed from Russian in the twentieth century, diminutive of Natalia and Natalya.”
Borrowed from Russian Ната́ша (Natáša), an informal pet form of Ната́лья (Natálʹja), cognate to Natalie.
/nəˈtɑʃə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Natasha?
#1,148 among girls’ names, 2025
Natasha fell from #669 in 2015 to #1,148 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.24 to 0.13 per 1,000.
4,147 babies in 1987, the peak
Natasha peaked in 1987, when 4,147 babies were given it (4,131 girls, #73 among girls’ names). The 202 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 202 | #1,148 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 285 | #933 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 261 | #984 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 337 | #834 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 297 | #908 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 272 | #945 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 305 | #885 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 337 | #808 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 356 | #775 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 390 | #730 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 428 | #669 | 0.24 |
| 2014 | 444 | #645 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 494 | #582 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 565 | #535 | 0.32 |
| 2011 | 606 | #491 | 0.34 |
| 2010 | 675 | #456 | 0.38 |
| 2009 | 786 | #402 | 0.43 |
| 2008 | 776 | #415 | 0.41 |
| 2007 | 848 | #387 | 0.44 |
| 2006 | 919 | #356 | 0.48 |
| 2005 | 1,029 | #312 | 0.56 |
| 2004 | 1,060 | #304 | 0.58 |
| 2003 | 970 | #321 | 0.53 |
| 2002 | 1,025 | #305 | 0.57 |
| 2001 | 1,080 | #291 | 0.60 |
| 2000 | 1,144 | #281 | 0.63 |
| 1999 | 1,244 | #255 | 0.70 |
| 1998 | 1,522 | #205 | 0.86 |
| 1997 | 1,594 | #189 | 0.92 |
| 1996 | 1,845 | #170 | 1.1 |
| 1995 | 2,104 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 2,382 | #133 | 1.3 |
| 1993 | 2,279 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 1992 | 2,813 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 1991 | 2,924 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 1990 | 3,270 | #105 | 1.7 |
| 1989 | 3,668 | #87 | 2.0 |
| 1988 | 4,039 | #73 | 2.3 |
| 1987 | 4,131 | #73 | 2.4 |
| 1986 | 3,872 | #70 | 2.3 |
| 1985 | 3,553 | #79 | 2.1 |
| 1984 | 3,709 | #77 | 2.2 |
| 1983 | 3,955 | #71 | 2.4 |
| 1982 | 4,128 | #71 | 2.4 |
| 1981 | 3,730 | #85 | 2.2 |
| 1980 | 3,428 | #89 | 2.1 |
| 1979 | 2,796 | #110 | 1.7 |
| 1978 | 2,555 | #114 | 1.7 |
| 1977 | 2,503 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 1976 | 2,095 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 1975 | 1,844 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 1974 | 2,005 | #141 | 1.4 |
| 1973 | 1,784 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 1972 | 1,729 | #170 | 1.1 |
| 1971 | 1,303 | #229 | 0.78 |
| 1970 | 717 | #350 | 0.41 |
| 1969 | 510 | #429 | 0.30 |
| 1968 | 319 | #538 | 0.19 |
| 1967 | 228 | #632 | 0.14 |
| 1966 | 135 | #862 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 120 | #931 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 103 | #1,076 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 103 | #1,062 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 91 | #1,148 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 100 | #1,099 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 91 | #1,143 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 82 | #1,180 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 76 | #1,225 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 55 | #1,434 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,205 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,484 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,062 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,872 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,289 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,699 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,961 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,413 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,159 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,853 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,121 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,804 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,158 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Natasha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Natasha has been given almost only to girls: 285 boys in 89 years of records.
Girls and boys named Natasha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Natasha, and how old are they?
94,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 97,937 Americans ever recorded as Natasha. The median Natasha alive today is 39 years old; half are between 31 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 89,482 people named Natasha (89,345 women and girls, 137 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93,906 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 31 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 714 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 22,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 51,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 15,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,380 |
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 Natasha born?
The states with the most babies named Natasha are California, Texas and Florida, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #873 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 31 | #942 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 19 | #856 | 1.3× |
| New York | 10 | #1,392 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,035 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,006 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,345 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,391 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,178 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #888 | 0.8× |
Where Natasha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Natasha is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1934 it was given 1.9 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 Natasha 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 108,657 babies since 1880, Natasha is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 202 of their 202 babies (100%), 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 Natasha
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 Natasha and names like it
- Compare Natasha and NatoshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNatasha peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Natasha since 1910.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Natasha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Natasha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Natasha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.