"Variant of Natalia"
The name Natalija is commonly a female name from the "Italian" origin.
Natalija is the South Slavic form of Natalia, used in Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Bosnian and Macedonian. It follows the same pattern as Marija for Maria and Sofija for Sophia, where the Latin ending -ia is written -ija. The underlying Latin name comes from natalis, meaning of or relating to birth. The 1991 date in United States birth records reflects when the spelling first appears in that data, not the age of the name.
Natalia means "To be born".
The pronunciation of Natalija is nah-TAH-lee-yah.
