Natalija

given name · Russian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Natalija is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Russian and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Natālija.

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus1 in 31◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 32
  • RURussia1 in 34

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.6M ●

across 11 countries

#12 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
548 ●

27M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 39 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

НатальяCyrillic · Russian●27M records
NataliaLatin · Portuguese●4.4M records
נטליהHebrew · Hebrew●113K records
ᲜატალიაGeorgian · Georgian●27K records
ΝαταλιαGreek · Greek●2.1K records
ณธษาThai · Thai●791 records
ՆատալյաArmenian · Armenian●17 records
나탈리야Hangul · Korean●5 records
ናታሊአEthiopic · Amharic●0 records

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Natalia in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, PL Poland and 10 more, Наталья in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 3 more, Natalie in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 2 more and Nathalie in FR France, BE Belgium.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Variant of Natālija.

Sources 2

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Natalija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#430,455,3129.6M rec.—#8Наталья241
UA Ukraine#49,848,4549.8M rec.—listedНаталія119
AR Argentina#752,139,7511.2M rec.—1.8KNatalia176
TR Türkiye#250400,57017K rec.——Наталья30
FR France#16382,9551.2M rec.1 in 177383KNathalie401
AU Australia#43379,109244K rec.—95Natalie281
GB United Kingdom#91365,150243K rec.—3Natalie277
US United States#176323,6012.5M rec.1 in 1K324KNatalie548
PL Poland#31320,219△42K rec.1 in 120320KNatalia212
BR Brazil#89295,023△139K rec.1 in 718335KNatalia214
CO Colombia#46219,36156K rec.—92Natalia228
MX Mexico#232210,304127K rec.—380Natalia213

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Russian45K40%
  • Croatian32K29%
  • Hungarian7.3K7%
  • Czech3.4K3%
  • German3.2K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Russian44,74740%
Croatian32,03229%
Hungarian7,3407%
Czech3,4203%
German3,2223%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Natalija is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name7.4K records spelled Natalija4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia

    Also written Natālija, Natálija, Ñatalija

  • Spanish given name3.1K records spelled Natalija10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Natālija, Nàtalija, Nãtälîjã

  • Estonian given name904 records spelled Natalija4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, United States

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Natālija

  • a separate given name694 records spelled Natalija4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States, Serbia

    Also written Natālija, Natálija, Natalìja

  • Romanian given name73 records spelled Natalija2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Natālija

  • Georgian given name46 records spelled Natalija2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written Natālija

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Natalija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05101520199020002010202016 · 2014

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Natalija in Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present), Austria, 1989–2024
Yearrecords
19891
19902
19912
19922
19974
19981
19993
20002
20012
20028
20033
20045
20051
20063
20073
20087
20094
20105
201115
201212
20135
201416
20156
201612
201710
20185
201910
202013
20219
202216
202310
202413

AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 32 years between 1989–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Nataliya Kobrynska, b. 1855Nathalie Sarraute, b. 1900Natalya Estemirova, b. 1958Natalya Lisovskaya, b. 1962Natasha Koroleva, b. 1973Radveda Poklonskaya, b. 1980Natalia Vodianova, b. 1982Natasha Poly, b. 1985Glukoza, b. 1986Natalia Gordienko, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 45 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Natalija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20214.5K#224
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20214.1K—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—3.6K#152
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20253.6K#77
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20243.6K#77
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20233.6K#77
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20123.6K#75
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20143.6K#75
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20153.6K#75
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20113.6K#77
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20163.6K#80
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20223.6K#77

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 304 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Natalija?
We estimate roughly 1.6 million people bear Natalija (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Natalija have the most bearers?
Natalija is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled наталья.
How common is Natalija compared with other names?
In Russia, Natalija is the 4th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Natalija a male or female name?
Natalija is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Natalija mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant of Natālija.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Natalija” — the 4th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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