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Natasha vs Natron

American parents have registered 97,937 Natashas since 1880, against 47 Natrons. Natasha is still ahead, with 202 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Natasha Natron

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 Natron had 15.

Side by side

  Natasha Natron
Total US births 97,93747
Most in one year 4,14715
Babies in 2025 202under 5
Estimated living today 95,00050
Median age today 3829
Peak year 19871995
Best rank 73rd girls4,052nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,144thunranked
First recorded 19341995
Girls / boys 97,652 / 2850 / 47

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 Natrons are over 29. That is 9 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 Natron.