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Nataniel

#6,055 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Natanael

Nataniel has been given to 670 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #6,055 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Nataniel, 2025

1 in 221,000

Nataniel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nataniel: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Natanael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nataniel means

Nataniel is a variant of Natanael.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nataniel → Natanael. The family’s meaning is “God has given”, recorded in Finnish with the source elements Netan'el.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Natanael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 670 boys were recorded with the name Nataniel between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2008; its best national rank was #3,286 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,649 in 2020 to #6,055 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,247 in 2015 to #6,055 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.

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How common is Nataniel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,055
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nataniel 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nataniel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nataniels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nataniel was born before 2008 — so the typical Nataniel is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
670
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (203).

Is Nataniel 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
−237
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,406
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,808
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2008 (30)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,286
1991

Spellings of Nataniel

Nataniel is not the most common spelling — Nathaniel is, with 88.4% against Nataniel's 0.21%.

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 Nataniel is used

Across 1910–2025, Nataniel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 630,229 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Nataniel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nataniel around the world

Where Nataniel 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
    2006–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2018
    #516
    in 2018
  • Northern Ireland
    2009–2018
    #416
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2024
    #2,482
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nataniel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,055
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,406
Best rank ever
#3,286
1991
Peak year
2008
30 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
670
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Nataniel

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

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Sibling names for Nataniel

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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