Nathanyel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nathanyel has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 21 recorded.
Babies named Nathanyel, 2017
1 in 715,000
Nathanyel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nathanyel?
Nathanyel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 370,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nathanyel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nathanyel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nathanyels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nathanyel was born before 2006 — so the typical Nathanyel is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 62.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 245
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 62.4% of all recorded uses (153).
Is Nathanyel 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (21)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.0% average annual change
Spellings of Nathanyel
Nathanyel is not the most common spelling — Nathaniel is, with 88.3% against Nathanyel'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.
Nathanyel around the world
Where Nathanyel 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.
- France2005–2019#3,974in 2019
- Canada2010–2017#2,766in 2017
- South Australia2010–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nathanyel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nathanyel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nathanyel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.