Natalia (given name)

Natalia
Gender Female
Origin
Word/name Latin, Greek, Slavic
Meaning Christmas Day

Natalia is a female given name with the original Late Latin meaning of "Christmas Day" (cf. Latin natale domini).

It is currently used in this form in Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek (spelled Ναταλία), Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Polish. Other forms and spellings include Natalie/Nathalie (Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic), Natálie (Czech), Natália/Nathália (Portuguese, Slovak and Hungarian), Natalya/Nataliya (Russian: Наталья/Наталия), Nataliya/Natalya (Ukrainian: Наталія/Наталя), Natallia (Belarusian: Наталля), Natālija (Latvian), Natalija (Cyrillic: Наталија; Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Lithuanian, and Macedonian), Natàlia (Catalan) and ნატალია (Georgian).

In Russian, a common diminutive is Natasha (Наташа).

Variants and derived forms of given name Natalia

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See also