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Nataliia

Around 86,000 women in Poland carry it, yet it barely reaches newborns now: two girls last year. This spelling comes by way of Ukrainian, and the name marks "Christmas Day".

Nataliia Pronunciation

Nataliia is pronounced nah-TAHLY-yah (/naˈtaljja/).

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Natalia
Alive in 2025
86,243
Newborns 2025
2
National rank
#135

What Nataliia means

Where Nataliia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Nataliia is the Ukrainian form of a name Poland writes as Natalia, its close variant. Both mean Christmas Day. The Latin word natalis, as in dies natalis Domini, the birthday of the Lord, gave the name its bond with the December feast, and Slavic speakers carried that sense into their own spelling. Nataliia keeps the doubled i that a Polish register tends to smooth back to a single one.

Saint Natalia of Nicomedia anchored the name in the church calendar. Christian tradition has remembered her since its early centuries. Girls named for her stood, from the start, close to the season her feast belongs to.

Consider an official form at the urząd: Nataliia entered in full, then Natalia beside it once the clerk fits the name to Polish habit. Short name. Same root, two spellings. Boże Narodzenie, two ways of writing one name that both point to Christmas Day.

How many people are named Nataliia

1 in 261 women in Poland is named Nataliia. 86,243 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #135 among female names.

People with the name Nataliia 2019 → 2025
86,243 +73,073 since 2019
2020 17,634 +4,464
2021 23,219 +5,585
2022 30,965 +7,746
2023 74,238 +43,273
2024 81,175 +6,937
2025 86,243 +5,068

Nataliia's popularity over time

2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1749 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021. Still the #135 name among living women, even as it slips to #1749 among newborns.

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2 newborns with the name Nataliia in 2025
national rank #1749 that year

Where Nataliia is most popular

Nataliia is most popular in Lower Silesian, 588% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+205%).

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Nataliia as a middle name

Nataliia is a first name for 86,243 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1733rd, between Nana (18) and Neomi (18).

As a first name
86,243
As a middle name
18
first name 100% middle name 0%
Middle-name ranking women

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