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Natalie

Girls' name · Millennial-era perennial

Living in the US
~355,200 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#89 among girls
Births in 2025
2,736 379,831 since 1880
Typical age
25 years, median

Natalie popularity over time

Natalie rank by birth year, 1880–2025Natalie ranked #836 in 1880 and #89 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #13, in 2008.#100#1,000#89best #13 in 200818901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Natalie in 2006 than in any other year — 10,970 of them. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. It has held a top-100 place in 50 separate years.

The 2025 position is #89, on 2,736 births. The ten-year change is -58%. Year on year the rank dropped by 16.

Babies named Natalie per yearPeaks at 10,970 births in 2006.10,970 in 2006018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Natalie?

An estimated 355,200 living Americans are called Natalie. That is out of 379,831 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Natalie?

Half of living Natalies are older than 25, half younger. More of them were born in the 2000s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Natalie a millennial-era perennial name.

Your Natalie

Ages of living people named NatalieHalf of living Natalies are older than 25 and half younger.median 25020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Natalie is most common

Natalie is 3.1× as common in Maine as it is nationally. New Hampshire, Vermont and North Dakota follow.

Where Natalie is used more than average5 states use the name Natalie more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: 3.1× the national rateMEVermont: 2.7× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: 2.9× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: 2.1× the national rateNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.1× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Natalie is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Maine 284 3.1×
New Hampshire 292 2.9×
Vermont 80 2.7×
North Dakota 168 2.1×
Rhode Island 157 2.1×

Natalie in England and Wales

ONS recorded 61 births named Natalie in 2025, ranking it #634. That is 42% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Natalie comes from

From the French form of the Late Latin saint's name Natalia, from nātālis (diēs) (“birthday [of Christ], Christmas”). Doublet of Natalya.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Natalie

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Natalie Portman Israeli-American actress 1981 136
Natalie Wood American actress 1938–1981 74
Natalie Imbruglia Australian-British singer and actress 1975 63
Natalie Dormer English actress 1982 59
Natalie Cole American singer 1950–2015 57
Natalie Clifford Barney American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris 1876–1972 51
Natalie Geisenberger German luger 1988 37
Natalie Glebova Russian-Canadian beauty queen 1981 36
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 612 in 1956 to 1,055 in 1957 — 1.7 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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