Nethanel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nethanel has been given to 48 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2005, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Nethanel, 2017
1 in 596,000
Nethanel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nethanel?
Nethanel 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 596,000
- 6 of 3,577,106 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 308,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 413,245 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nethanel 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nethanel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nethanels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nethanel was born before 2005 — so the typical Nethanel is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 75.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 48
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (36).
Is Nethanel 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 2005 (8)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.7% average annual change
Spellings of Nethanel
Nethanel is not the most common spelling — Nathaniel is, with 92.0% against Nethanel's 0.02%.
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.
Nethanel around the world
Where Nethanel 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.
- France1988–2023#5,476in 2023
- South Australia1983–1983#443in 1983
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nethanel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nethanel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nethanel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.