Nathaneal
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nathaneal has been given to 908 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Nathaneal, 2023
1 in 368,000
Nathaneal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nathaneal?
Nathaneal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,294 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nathaneal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nathaneal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nathaneals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nathaneal was born before 1999 — so the typical Nathaneal is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 35.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 53.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 908
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (318).
Is Nathaneal 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1999 (39)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.2% average annual change
Spellings of Nathaneal
Nathaneal is not the most common spelling — Nathaniel is, with 89.2% against Nathaneal's 0.28%.
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 Nathaneal is used
Across 1910–2025, Nathaneal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 782,450 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Nathaneal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nathaneal around the world
Where Nathaneal 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 & Wales1998–2017#3,996in 2017
- Canada1998–2022#2,959in 2022
- South Australia1972–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nathaneal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nathaneal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nathaneal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.