Natasha: Meaning of Baby Name Natasha

About the Name Natasha

Natasha is the Russian diminutive of Natalia, itself derived from the Latin natalis ("of or relating to birth" or "birthday"), traditionally associated with Christ's birth — making it a name meaning "born on Christmas" or "Christmas child." Natasha traveled into English-language use through Russian literature, émigré communities, and the broader mid-twentieth-century interest in Slavic names, arriving with a distinctly Eastern European character that set it apart from the Latin and English feminines around it.

Natasha first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 1980 and climbed to its peak rank of #70 in 1986, capturing the height of the name's American popularity during the decade when Slavic-origin names were at their most fashionable in US nurseries. The name has shown remarkable longevity, remaining in the top-1000 through 2024, when it ranked #933 with 283 births — following #986 in 2023 and #833 in 2022. Total tracked births reached 53,898 across four and a half decades of SSA presence.

Today Natasha retains a cosmopolitan elegance: three syllables with a strong central stress, a soft consonant opening, and a bright final vowel. It feels neither dated nor fashionable — a name that has settled into a durable, slightly exotic classic. Recorded variants include Natosha, Tash, Tasha, Tashie, and Tosha, ranging from alternative spellings to informal diminutives.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.

Quick Facts About Natasha

24

Slavic baby names in our dictionary

17

Slavic female names

119

7-letter N-names in our dictionary

359

N-female names total

1980–2024

years of US SSA records (35 total)

53,898

total US births named Natasha (all years)

US Popularity History (1980–2024)

↘️ Falling: Natasha dropped 48 places in the US girls ranking over the last 5 years (#885 in 2019 → #933 in 2024).

Annual US births named Natasha by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 1987 with 4,131 girls named Natasha (girl rank #73 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2024, ranked #933 for girls (283 US births). That's 860 places below its 1987 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Natasha Most Popular?

Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Natasha the strongest states are Nevada, Massachusetts, Florida.

Strongest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Nevada	#509	20
2	Massachusetts	#600	75
3	Florida	#666	232
4	Utah	#673	19
5	Washington	#677	32
6	Arizona	#689	51
7	California	#697	453
8	New Jersey	#698	107
9	Virginia	#705	45
10	Colorado	#720	40

Weakest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Ohio	#1,066	27
2	Missouri	#922	18
3	Pennsylvania	#905	55
4	Michigan	#858	30
5	Texas	#844	329
6	New York	#838	167
7	Minnesota	#837	18
8	Wisconsin	#831	35
9	Illinois	#769	44
10	Maryland	#738	45

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Natasha in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Natosha		Female	Russian
Tosha	Satisfaction	Female	English

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