Natanel

#13,311 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Natanel has been given to 256 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #13,311 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Natanel, 2025

1 in 663,000

Natanel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Natanel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,311
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Natanel 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Natanel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Natanels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Natanel was born before 2009 — so the typical Natanel is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
256
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Choose a decade

2000s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Natanel 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
−4,542
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,752
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,103
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.8%
Peak was 2015 (18)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,179
2004

Spellings of Natanel

Natanel is not the most common spelling — Nathaniel is, with 90.5% against Natanel's 0.08%.

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 Natanel is used

Across 1910–2025, Natanel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 473,178 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Natanel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Natanel around the world

Where Natanel 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
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    1988–2019
    #6,271
    in 2019

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

Natanel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,311
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,752
Best rank ever
#5,179
2004
Peak year
2015
18 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
256
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Natanel

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