Natela
A Georgian name meaning "light" or "bright", far from any Slavic root. In Poland it barely registers: fewer than a hundred women carry it and no girls were given it last year, so most Poles will never meet one.
Natela Pronunciation
Natela is pronounced nah-TE-lah (/naˈtɛla/).
What Natela means
Where Natela comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Natela comes from Georgian, where the word nateli means light or bright. The name belongs to that family of words. A Georgian child called Natela holds a word for brightness inside her own name.
Georgian keeps the root close to daylight. From nateli the language builds words for dawn and for clarity. Natela sits among them and carries the plain sense of light, jasność in Polish. Nothing in the name points to a saint or a legend. Its origin is filed simply as other.
In Poland the name arrives without a fixed imieniny. On a school register it reads as foreign next to the Zuzannas and Amelias. That difference is the whole of it. When a teacher reaches Natela in the dziennik, the sound alone marks the name as coming from somewhere else.
A name can mean one clear thing. Natela means light.
How many people are named Natela
1 in 227715 women in Poland is named Natela. 99 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3481 among female names.