Natalie

What Natalie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Natalie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 10,951 babies; 2,736 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Natalie?

US: Falling: down from #27 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #282 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2005, when 10,742 girls got the name (#18 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 587 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,152 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ME (6.42 per 1,000 girls), VT (6.16 per 1,000 girls), NH (5.79 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Natalie is #89 in the US and #634 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Natalie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Natalia2,028 US · 114 E&W
• Nadalia5 US
• Nataliah5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Nathalie

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Natalie

Girls

• Adrianna#872Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #294 in 2015, #872 in 2025
• Adriana#366Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #366 vs #951 in 2025
• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Anna#107Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #107 in 2025
• Johanna#869“God is gracious”^*
• Clare#924“bright, shining, clear”^*

For a brother

• Dominick#622Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,780 babies; 448 in 2025
• Fabian#468“belonging to Fabius”^*
• Quentin#965“fifth”^*
• Carlos#150Spanish and Portuguese form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Victor#209“conqueror”^*
• Anthony#46“flower”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Natalie’s. Rank is US 2025.