Nataly
Barely 79 women in Poland carry it, so most people will never meet one. The name is Latin, from a root that marks a child born on Christmas Day.
Nataly Pronunciation
Nataly is pronounced nah-TAH-lih (/naˈtalɨ/).
What Nataly means
Where Nataly comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nataly grows from Latin natalis, an adjective meaning "of birth." The Church used the phrase dies natalis for a birthday, and above all for the birthday of Christ. From that use the name took its meaning: born on Christmas day. In Polish the sense reads narodzona w dniu narodzin.
The fuller form Natalia came first, and Nataly reads as a lighter cut of it. Nata shortens it further for everyday use. Natasza arrived through Russian, a variant that Polish families adopted freely.
Girls named Natalia keep their imieniny near the end of the year, and a class register in Poland will often list a Nataly beside a Natalia. The Christmas sense is no decoration added afterward. It sits in the Latin root itself, in dies natalis, the day of birth.
How many people are named Nataly
1 in 285365 women in Poland is named Nataly. 79 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4006 among female names.
Nataly's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Nataly as a middle name
Nataly is a first name for 79 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1793rd, between Nadina (17) and Notburga (17).
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#1791 Maxima17
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#1792 Nadina17
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#1793 Nataly17
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#1794 Notburga17
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#1795 Oanh17