The first name Natalia is a variant of Natalie. The name can be traced back to Latin Natalis, which means ‘birthday’.
Natalia is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The first name Natalia is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #100 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Natalia, accounting for approximately 0.20 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 74,725 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Natalia. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
#77 - this is the highest rank Natalia has ever achieved. Not many names manage to reach such a high popularity in even one of the 140+ years of recording. The last time Natalia reached this top spot was in 2021 when 3,191 newborn girls were given this name. But as our statistics show, Natalia hasn't always been a popular name: in some years of record, most recently in the year 1904, not a single newborn or less than 5 were named Natalia (a name is only included in the official statistics if it has been given at least 5 times in a year). Nevertheless, the name Natalia has accompanied people in this country for a long time. It turns out that this name fits very well into our time today. From zero to hero - even though it took a while for Natalia to really catch on, it has become a very popular name.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Natalia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 2,995 newborns were given the name Natalia, making it rank #79. In the current century, the name is really taking off. So the chances of meeting a young Natalia are higher than ever.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Natalia has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Natalia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Natalia, you can simply say:
Nut
Apple
Tiger
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Natalia
Natalia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
T
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L
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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A
L
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Natalia sounds like this:
