Nathanual
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nathanual has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2002, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Nathanual, 2008
1 in 655,000
Nathanual 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nathanual?
Nathanual had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 655,000
- 6 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 340,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 454,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nathanual sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nathanual. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nathanuals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nathanual was born before 2002 — so the typical Nathanual is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 36
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (36).
Is Nathanual 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (8)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.7% average annual change
Spellings of Nathanual
Nathanual is not the most common spelling — Nathaniel is, with 89.2% against Nathanual's 0.01%.
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.
Nathanual around the world
Where Nathanual 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 & Wales1998–1998#2,901in 1998
- South Australia1993–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nathanual by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nathanual
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nathanual
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.