Back Natalia Breton Natalia (nombre) Spanish Natalia (eesnimi) Estonian Natalia (nimi) Finnish Natalia ID Natalia Italian Natalia Latin Natalia NB Natalia Polish Natália Slovak
| 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).[1]
It is currently used in this form in Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek (spelled Ναταλία), Russian, Ukrainian (spelled Nataliia), Bulgarian and Polish.[2] Other forms and spellings include Natalie/Nathalie (Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic), Natálie (Czech), Natália/Nathália (Portuguese, Slovak and Hungarian), Natalya/Nataliya (Russian: Наталья/Наталия), Nataliia/Natalia (Ukrainian: Наталія/Наталя), Natallia (Belarusian: Наталля), Natālija (Latvian), Natalija (Cyrillic: Наталија; Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Lithuanian, and Macedonian),[3] Natàlia (Catalan) and ნატალია (Georgian).
In Russian, a common diminutive is Natasha (Наташа).
- ^ Susan Osborn (November 1999). What's in a Name?. Simon and Schuster. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-671-02555-7.
- ^ Natalie, BehindTheName.com
- ^ Names Related to Natalie, BehindTheName.com