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Natasha vs Natori

American parents have registered 97,937 Natashas since 1880, against 383 Natoris. Natasha is still ahead, with 202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Natasha against Natori, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Natasha Natori

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Natasha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1934 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Natasha had 2,104 and Natori had 70.

Side by side

  Natasha Natori
Total US births 97,937383
Most in one year 4,14770
Babies in 2025 202under 5
Estimated living today 95,000380
Median age today 3827
Peak year 19871995
Best rank 73rd girls2,101st girls
Rank in 2025 1,144thunranked
First recorded 19341995
Girls / boys 97,652 / 285377 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Natashas alive today are over 38; half the Natoris are over 27. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Natasha and Natori.