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Natanael

#1,230 in 2025Boys' name

God has given

Natanael has been given to 2,557 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #1,230 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 176 recorded.

Babies named Natanael, 2025

1 in 20,200

Natanael over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Natanael: meaning, origin, and history

God has given

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Natanael means

Natanael means “God has given”, associated with Netan'el.

Origin, language, and formation

Natanael is used in Faroese, Finnish, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.

Natanael comes through Ancient Greek Ναθαναήλ and Biblical Hebrew נְתַנְאֵל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nathanael.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Natanael is pronounced /ˈnɑtɑnɑel/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,557 boys were recorded with the name Natanael between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 176 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,121 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,121 in 2020 to #1,230 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,184 in 2015 to #1,230 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Natanael?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,200
164 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,230
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,013 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Natanael sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,013 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Natanael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Natanaels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Natanael was born before 2013 — so the typical Natanael is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,557
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (866).

Is Natanael rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+51
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−109
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+954
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.2%
Peak was 2020 (176)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,121
2020

Spellings of Natanael

Natanael is not the most common spelling — Nathaniel is, with 91.6% against Natanael's 0.82%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Natanael is used

Across 2016–2025, Natanael was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 13,980 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

212 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 8,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 10,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 12,500
  4. 4Florida1 in 14,286
  5. 5Georgia1 in 14,286
  6. 6Arizona1 in 25,000
  7. 7New York1 in 25,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Natanael around the world

Where Natanael ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1971–2025
    #3,040
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Natanael

People whose public names include Natanael, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Natanael in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Natanael. Linked forms have their own page here.

NathanaelNathaniel

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Natanael by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,230
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 109
Best rank ever
#1,121
2020
Peak year
2020
176 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,557
Count in 2025
164

Names similar to Natanael

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Natanael

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Natanael, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Natanael

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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