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Natasha

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Natasha is ranked 933rd among girls in 2024 (283 births). Its best rank was 70th, in 1986.

Rank in 2024
#933up 53 from 2023
Births in 2024
2830.02% of girls
Peak year
19874,131 births
Best rank
#70in 1986
Since 1934
97,446people given the name
Babies named Natasha, by year of birthgirls
01.3k2.5k3.8k5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

97,446 girls have been named Natasha in the United States since 1934, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1987, with 4,131 births — 0.24% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 644 → 933).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 39%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Natasha
1930s22
1940s86
1950s332
1960s1,800
1970s19,331
1980s38,213
1990s21,977
2000s9,636
2010s4,600
2020s1,449

In 1987, its biggest year

Natasha was the 73rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1987 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1987.

Names that rose and fell with Natasha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.