Given name
Natalija
“birthday (of Christ), Christmas”
Natalija is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovene.
Original LatinNatalia
Meaning & origin
What it means
Natalija is a romanization of Наталия. Наталия means “birthday (of Christ), Christmas.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Natalija through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 241
- 0 boys · 241 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,419 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,419 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 476 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Natalija’s family of names
In Croatian usage, Natalija has a conventional equivalent in the German form Natalie. In Latvian usage, Natalija has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Natalia. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Natalija was borrowed from the Latin form Natalia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Natalija has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Natalija comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 18
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Natalija
- Natalija KonstantinovićPrincess of Montenegro (1882–1950)
- Natalija StevanovićSerbian female tennis playerborn 1994
- Natalia ShepelinaRussian water polo playerborn 1981
- Nataliya HubaUkrainian rowerborn 1978
- Natalija GrosSlovenian sport climberborn 1984
- Nataliia TereshchenkoUkrainian biathleteborn 1976
- Natalija VerbotenSlovenian singerborn 1976
- Nataliya MorozBelarusian biathleteborn 1976
- Natalya ProzorovaSoviet-Ukrainian jurist and university lecturer1922–2006
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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