Given name

Nataša

“birth”

Nataša is a feminine given name. It is used in Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, and Slovene.

Original RussianНаташа

Meaning & origin

What it means

Nataša is a romanization of Наташа. Наташа goes back to a word meaning “birth.”

Explained through its name family

Where it comes from

Nataša comes from Russian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Serbo-Croatian usage, Nataša is a diminutive of Natalia.

Nataša’s family of names

In Serbo-Croatian usage, Nataša is a diminutive of Natalia. In Czech usage, Nataša has a conventional equivalent in the English form Natasha. In Czech usage, Nataša has a conventional equivalent in the French form Natacha.

Walk Nataša’s family in the name graph

NatašaNatasaНаташаNatașaNataliaNataškaNatalieNatashaNatachaNataschaNatasjaNatasciaNataszaNastazja

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Nataša has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.

Russian

Russianwhere Nataša comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 3

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 8

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

See also 2

Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.

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Latin

Natalja

Natalja is a variant of Natalie. One Latin interpretation is “born on Christmas Day; refers to Christ's birthday.”

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Latin

Nataļja

Nataļja is a feminine given name from Russian, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Latvian.

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>99% girls

Russian · Virtue

Nadeschda

“hope”

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Russian

Nádia

Nádia is a feminine given name from Russian. It is used in Portuguese.

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Russian

Nadjeschda

Nadjeschda is a given name from Russian. It is used in German.

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Russian

Naděžda

Naděžda is a feminine given name from Russian. It is used in Czech.

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>99% girls

Russian · Virtue

Nadežda

“hope”

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Russian

Näsänen

Näsänen is a surname, possibly from Russian. It is used in Finnish.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Nataša’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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