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Netanel

#4,815 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Nathanael

Netanel has been given to 456 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #4,815 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Netanel, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Netanel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Nathanael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Netanel means

Netanel is a form of Nathanael.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nathanael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 456 boys were recorded with the name Netanel between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2015; its best national rank was #4,248 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,899 in 2020 to #4,815 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,248 in 2015 to #4,815 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Netanel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,815
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Netanel 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Netanel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Netanels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Netanel was born before 2011 — so the typical Netanel is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
456
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Netanel 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
+1,279
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,084
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−567
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.5%
Peak was 2015 (24)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,248
2015

Spellings of Netanel

Netanel is not the most common spelling — Natanael is, with 56.0% against Netanel's 10.0%.

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 Netanel is used

Across 1910–2025, Netanel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 211,671 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 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. Netanel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Netanel around the world

Where Netanel 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
    2003–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • France
    1990–2021
    #4,228
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018

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

Netanel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,815
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,084
Best rank ever
#4,248
2015
Peak year
2015
24 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
456
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Netanel

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

NethanelNesanelNeteyamNatanelLyonelNathanelRonelDarinelDionelNethanielNethanColonelNettieRonnelDonnelVernelJohnelCarnelDarnelCornelJonelDanelDonelElianel

Sibling names for Netanel

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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