Nathalie
The French spelling of a Greek name meaning "born on Christmas Day". Around 650 women in Poland carry it, and hardly any girls get it now: most Poles have never met one.
Nathalie Pronunciation
What Nathalie means
Where Nathalie comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nathalie holds a date inside it. Its short meaning, born on Christmas day, ties the name to a single feast, and that link reached Polish through the Greek-speaking Christian world rather than any French court. The French flavour, the spelling with the silent h, arrived much later.
One remembered bearer is Saint Natalia, honoured in the early Church alongside her husband Adrian, a martyr of Nicomedia. Her story fixed the name in the calendar, so that women named for her found their day marked each year.
In Polish the name settles into familiar forms. Natalia is the fuller variant on the birth certificate, and Natalka is the diminutive a girl hears at home. Read a class register in a Polish school and you will likely find one. The meaning stays fixed underneath: born on Christmas day.
How many people are named Nathalie
1 in 34736 women in Poland is named Nathalie. 649 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1167 among female names.
Nathalie's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Nathalie as a middle name
Nathalie is a first name for 649 women in Poland and a middle name for another 142, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 547th, between Margarete (142) and Wiera (142).
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#545 Marieta143
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#546 Margarete142
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#547 Nathalie142
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#548 Wiera142
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#549 Chloe141