Natasha

given name · English · Latin script

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

Natasha is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Russian form of Natalie, meaning ‘Christmas’; occasionally found in Ireland.

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

11 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●

Russian form of Natalie, meaning ‘Christmas’; occasionally found in Ireland.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Natasha 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●

  • English1.1M58%
  • Portuguese265K14%
  • Spanish160K8%
  • Russian72K4%
  • 55K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,098,49158%
Portuguese264,69614%
Spanish159,7958%
Russian72,4354%
55,2853%

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◐

Natasha is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name468K records spelled Natasha26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, France

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French

    Also written Na'Tasha, Nätäshä, N'Atasha, Nätäshâ, Nätåshã

  • a separate given name58K records spelled Natasha2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Nātāshā

  • Indonesian given name39K records spelled Natasha4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Natasha, Natasha'

  • Finnish given name3.9K records spelled Natasha4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Hungary, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Nätäshä

70 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●

Natasha is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Russian: born at Christmas; from Natalie, also used independently

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • A Russian form of Natalie, ‘Christmas’, occasionally found in Ireland.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • Russian: pet form of Natalya, now widely adopted as an independent name in the English-speaking world and elsewhere. Like Noélle and Noél, it is 180 sometimes given to girls born on or about Christmas Day.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A female given name from Russian, Ukrainian borrowed from Russian in the twentieth century, diminutive of Natalia and Natalya.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Natasha är en rysk form av → Natalia, nu också vanlig i den engelskspråkiga världen.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

02K4K6K194019601980200020204.1K · 1987

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Natasha in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1934–2025
Yearrecords
19346
19365
19385
19396
19417
19425
194315
19447
194512
19465
194715
194811
19499
19505
195113
19529
195319
195416
195525
195632
195755
195876
195982
196091
1961100
196291
1963103
1964103
1965120
1966135
1967228
1968319
1969510
1970717
19711,303
19721,729
19731,784
19742,005
19751,844
19762,095
19772,503
19782,555
19792,796
19803,428
19813,730
19824,128
19833,955
19843,709
19853,553
19863,872
19874,131
19884,039
19893,668
19903,270
19912,924
19922,813
19932,279
19942,382
19952,104
19961,845
19971,594
19981,522
19991,244
20001,144
20011,080
20021,025
2003970
20041,060
20051,029
2006919
2007848
2008776
2009786
2010675
2011606
2012565
2013494
2014444
2015428
2016390
2017356
2018337
2019305
2020272
2021297
2022337
2023261
2024285
2025202

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 89 years between 1934–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960198020002020Natasha Richardson, b. 1963Natasha Gregson Wagner, b. 1970Natasha Henstridge, b. 1974Natasha Lyonne, b. 1979Natasha Rothwell, b. 1980Natasha Poly, b. 1985Natasha O'Keeffe, b. 1986Natasha Bassett, b. 1992Natasha Liu Bordizzo, b. 1994Sasha Obama, b. 2001

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 100 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Natasha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202089K#595
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202221K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—21K#1,039
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—16K#1,577
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20245.5K#329
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—3.6K#62
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251.8K#11
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.4K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.3K#342
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.1K#1,587
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#2,695
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1K#1,611

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 · 1,297 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Natasha?
We estimate roughly 1.6 million people bear Natasha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Natasha have the most bearers?
Natasha is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled наталья.
How common is Natasha compared with other names?
In Russia, Natasha is the 4th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Natasha a male or female name?
Natasha 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 Natasha mean?
Recorded meaning: Russian form of Natalie, meaning ‘Christmas’; occasionally found in Ireland.
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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, “Natasha” — the 4th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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