Natosha
Natosha was last recorded in 2010, when 6 babies were given it; 3,105 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,990 Americans named Natosha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 37 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Natosha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Natosha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,372, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
161 babies in 1986, the peak
Natosha peaked in 1986, when 161 girls were given it, #983 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #16,372 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,330 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,936 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,013 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,129 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,864 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,106 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,207 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,328 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,232 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 23 | #5,098 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,695 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,738 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,783 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,203 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,403 | 30.7 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,961 | 40.3 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,845 | 43.1 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,884 | 40.7 |
| 1991 | 113 | #1,421 | 60.3 |
| 1990 | 124 | #1,309 | 65.3 |
| 1989 | 146 | #1,133 | 79.2 |
| 1988 | 127 | #1,193 | 71.3 |
| 1987 | 159 | #991 | 91.5 |
| 1986 | 161 | #983 | 93.8 |
| 1985 | 139 | #1,064 | 80.8 |
| 1984 | 147 | #986 | 87.3 |
| 1983 | 136 | #1,033 | 81.4 |
| 1982 | 152 | #976 | 89.8 |
| 1981 | 156 | #947 | 93.5 |
| 1980 | 144 | #1,013 | 86.7 |
| 1979 | 141 | #1,011 | 87.8 |
| 1978 | 153 | #931 | 99.9 |
| 1977 | 114 | #1,123 | 74.4 |
| 1976 | 86 | #1,283 | 58.7 |
| 1975 | 106 | #1,106 | 72.7 |
| 1974 | 84 | #1,282 | 57.2 |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,492 | 43.9 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,912 | 28.9 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,284 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,394 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,564 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,031 | 5.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,644 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,261 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Natosha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Natosha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Natosha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Natosha, and how old are they?
2,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,105 Americans ever recorded as Natosha. The median Natosha alive today is 42 years old; half are between 37 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 2,263 people named Natosha (2,259 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,020 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 966 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 199 |
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 Natosha born?
The states with the most babies named Natosha are Texas, Ohio and Illinois, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 196 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 139 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 125 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 118 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 107 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 107 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 94 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Indiana | 86 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 79 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 76 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Natosha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Natosha is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1962 it was given 1.6 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 Natosha 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 106,755 babies since 1880, Natosha is the second most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 202 babies recorded by SSA was a Natosha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Natosha
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 Natosha and names like it
- Compare Natosha and NatashaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNatosha peaked in 1986.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Natosha since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Natosha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Natosha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.